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Fulani are Buhari's kinsmen

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@op shey na u wan cause the trouble

This cant ever be a true life story

Those who conducted the election says it was free, dont know d stress of d Army or let them provide those criminals they arrested

All these groups shouting for saraki resignation, wat ve they done to improve the life of their respective members. Wait untill he is convicted

… Clears air on pensions, others
By Wole Balogun, Ado Ekiti

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, has disclosed that the state only got N9.6 billion out of the over N29 billion it applied for in the Federal Government’s bail-out funds for states.
The governor, who spoke on Monday in Ikogosi-Ekiti during the opening ceremony of a two-day retreat for commissioners, permanent secretaries and heads of agencies, also said out of the N5.6 billion applied for by the 16 local governments in the state, the Federal Government only approved N991 million. In a statement in Ado-Ekiti by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, the governor made the clarification following insinuations that the state government did not want to pay pensions arrears and gratuities of retirees.
“You people know that I don’t hide anything from you when allocations come. We applied for N29 billion from the bail-out fund. It was to cover the August and September 2014 salary arrears left by the Fayemi government, leave bonus, pensions, gratuities and others. But for reasons we don’t know yet, only N9.6 billion was for salaries, leaving other issues. “The 16 local governments applied for N5.6 billion and we did all the necessary papers and presented them to the appropriate authorities, but only N991 million was approved.
We were later told by the Central Bank of Nigeria that about 14 states had similar problem with the small amount approved for local governments. We have nothing to hide and people should appeal to the FG to release the money in full. We know it is loan that we will repay with nine per cent interest,” he said. The governor also explained that the state had experienced a sharp decline in monthly allocations in recent time. “Last month we had a shortfall of N500 million and this month we have a shortfall of N600 million.


Source:http://www.sunnewsonline.com/bailout/ekiti-government

By David Robson 29 September 2015

Your height is a simple biological fact that you can do little to change, yet it may be influencing your destiny in ways you didn’t realise. BBC Future combed through the evidence to size up its impact on everything from your sexual allure to your bank account and your lifespan.

Money and power
At 6ft 4in (193cm), Abraham Lincoln would tower above Barack Obama – but even he is around 3in (8cm) taller than the average American. Confirming the correlation, a recent study found that taller candidates do indeed tend to receive more votes. Beyond the race to the White House, taller men and women are considered to be more dominant, healthy, and intelligent , and are more likely to be chosen for more competitive jobs; they also earn more money . It could be that we naturally associate height with “greatness” and “dominance” – two traits that are important for leadership. But height also reflects nutrition as a child – so perhaps it simply acts as a more general indicator of your upbringing, which may in turn influence your education and success later in life. Not all high achievers are giants among men, of course (Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King exuded charisma despite being on the short side). But on the basis of first impressions alone, taller people may have the edge.
Verdict: It’s easier for taller people to have the upper hand.

Sexual attraction
Towering, statuesque men do tend to have more allure. Study after study has found that taller men and women are generally considered more attractive . Intriguingly, you can even guess someone’s height from their face, meaning a mugshot on a dating website is not going to hide a more diminutive frame. But although they may be prized as supermodels, tall women do not seem to enjoy the same advantages in the dating game, however – an average height generally seems to be preferred. Even for men, a lanky body could be mixed blessing, if it means people also pay greater attention to your other endowments. One study recently examined women’s judgements of penis size . Curiously, the taller the man, the more important his penis size seemed to be in determining his overall attractiveness. Perhaps men of greater stature raised the women’s expectations, and so they were judged particularly harshly if they failed to make the grade . It’s not always true what people say about “men with big feet”, after all.
Verdict: Taller people might seem to win the dating game, but that doesn’t always translate into success.

Sport and athletics
You only need to look at a basketball court or the race track to realise that longer legs are an advantage across many events. Longer limbs can cover the ground faster, and they can reach further. What’s more, in team sport like American Football, taller players are able look over the heads of their competitors, making it easier to pass the ball. Yet sometimes a smaller body can be a bonus. It takes less time for a nerve impulse to travel the lengths of their limbs to their brains, meaning that their reaction times should be quicker, and they may be more nimble – which might help certain martial artists like Jackie Chan. It is also more cumbersome to bend and twist a taller body, whereas smaller people can achieve greater “rotational acceleration”, meaning that they excel in gymnastics, snowboarding, skating, skiing and diving.
Verdict: A clear score draw. It really depends on the sport.

Clumsiness
Think of your body a bit like a car: in purely mechanical terms, the larger it is, the harder it is to slow down if you need to avoid a collision. What’s more, the greater momentum means you face a more painful impact during collision. And of course, shorter people have less distance to fall. According to one estimate, someone who is 20% taller will build up twice as much kinetic energy during a fall. (You need only watch the comedian Miranda Hart to see this principle in action.) Perhaps this can explain why taller people are much more likely to suffer from injuries across their lifetime; women taller than 5ft 8in are twice as likely to fracture their hip as women who are just 5ft 2in.
Verdict: Smaller people are less accident-prone than taller people
. Lifespan and health
Villagrande Strisaili in Sardinia is known to have the highest proportion of centenarians in the whole of Europe. While many factors may contribute (including the Mediterranean diet and a lively social life) – one possible reason may be that the people are a little on the short side, with an average male height of around 160cm (or 5ft 3in) for the oldest generation. That’s surprising. Since healthier children tend to grow taller, you might expect height to be a good indicator of overall fitness. When other factors such as diet and healthcare have been taken into account, however, taller people seem to suffer as they get older . For instance, the bigger you are, the more cells you have in your body, increasing the risk of mutations developing that could cause cancer. A larger body may also have to burn more energy, increasing the build-up of toxic by-products that could contribute to general wear and tear. The results could knock years off your life ; among those long-lived citizens of Sardinia, the tallest people lived for about two years less than their shorter neighbours. Another study, of 1.3 million Spaniards, found that every additional centimetre in height shaved 0.7 years from the total expected lifespan.
Verdict: A shorter body means a longer lifespan.

Happiness
Despite these slight risks to your health, there is a silver lining to being tall: various studies have found that the greater your height, the higher you score on measures of happiness and enjoyment of life . This probably returns to the fact that your height can influence your career prospects and helps you to earn more money, meaning that taller people may have a slightly easier ride through life. Verdict: The taller you are, the happier you are. All of these factors are mere correlations, of course. There are plenty of exceptions that break all the rules. We have all been subjected to biology’s lottery – but it seems the prizes have been spread evenly, whatever your body size. Perhaps all these statistics really just prove the old adage right: it’s not the size of your body that determines your fate, but the way that you use it. And that’s the long and the short of the matter.

Source://http://www.bbc.co.uk/future.
David Robson is BBC Future’s feature writer. He is @d_a_robson on Twitter.

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Wentworth. My fav is Frankie Doyle

By Fergus Walsh
medical correspondent

Nigeria has been removed from the list of polio endemic coutries in what is being regarded as a "milestone" on the quest to eradicate the disease.

The announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO), was made at the meeting of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in New York.

It follows Nigeria more than a year without a case of wild naturally occuring polio.

Three years without cases are required before it can be declared polio free.

The decision means there are just two endemic countries Pakistan and Afghanistan where transmission of the paralysing virus has never been interrupted.


Source:www.bbc.co.uk/health.

Very good. Hapi birtday 2 me

Exile. Hapi bir day 2 me

Wait na six days is different from zero day, sometin can still happen. Na my birtday give me like

If i hear say na true. Its my birtday give me like

Dts d spirit of suicide. Rip. Meanwhile its my birtday make una wish me well

Na God know. Meanwhile its my birtday, make una wish me well and also give me like

The All Progressives Congress has admonished
the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, to exhibit
decorum in his public statements and avoid the
use of trench language in public discourse.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, the governing party said Metuh’s
increasing resort to the use of putrid language in
his press statements is distracting from the
message he might want to pass across, while at
the same time sending a bad signal to the
younger generation of Nigerians who look up to
him and other politicians.
“Mr. Metuh, being the spokesman, first for a
ruling party and now for the main opposition
puts you on the rarefied level of being a role
model and a pace setter. You denigrate your
office and your party when you use that platform
to spew out hate and abusive words.
“You might choose to be bombastic, sharply
critical and even aggressive in your statements,
but you do not have to resort to the use of
crude language like calling your fellow
spokesman a ‘renowned liar,’ a ‘master liar’ or a
‘shameless veteran,’ to make your point. Apart
from distracting from the issues at stake, those
words reflect more on your personality than on
the man you have chosen to skewer, and their
vulgarity is stomach-churning”, it said.
Mohammed said every statement being issued
today will become a reference material in the
weeks, months and years ahead, hence the need
to keep them decent, polished and dignifying,
even when they are hard-hitting.

The party said it has chosen to caution Metuh
rather than reply him in kind, hoping he will see
the reason for him not to continue on the path
of profanity.
“After all, it was American religious leader
Spencer W. Kimball who said ‘Profanity is the
effort of a feeble brain to express itself
forcibly’”, it said.


www.informationng.com/2015/09/metuh-denigrating-his-office-pdp-by-spewing-out-hate-and-abusive-words-says-lai-mohammed.html

Aiit

Mitcheew

Make dem do anything wey dem like from now till 2019

Enuff of this rubbish talk jaree, abi u wan receive 20 pages letter from Obj niii. free d old man abeg

These immigration stuff again, abeg we applicants don even forget abt it anyways anything wey una find make una make am public. Rip to those who lost their lives during d shady recruitment

Na all these western nation go destroy we country naija if we qre not watchful and careful

waiting patiently for their confirmation

Buhari wey wan kill our economy go still resurrect d same economy, so make una relax

I pity what will become of her as she refused to invest on her family but on someone who has no money as of December but after 10 months has abt 30 million. I dey pity her

when will all these people remove soon from their government policy

Controversial pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly,
Lagos, Tunde Bakare, has said a national leader
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, does not belong in the same class with
the former Premier of Western Region, Obafemi
Awolowo, and does not deserve to take the place
of the late sage as the leader of the Yoruba race.
He admitted that both leaders made unique
contributions in bringing the race together, but
Mr. Awolowo belonged to a special breed created
by God and was only in the class of world
leaders like Mahatma Gandhi of India.

The Pentecostal pastor stated this in an
interview published in the second edition of
Abuja-based magazine, The Interview.
Mr. Tinubu, who was governor of Lagos State
from 1999-2007, holds the title of Asiwaju, one
of the numerous titles also held by the late
premier of Western region, who passed away in
1987.

Asiwaju, a Yoruba word translated in English
means “the frontline leader”. Mr. Awolowo founded the Egbe Omo Oduduwa in the 40’s to promote the culture and unity of the Yoruba. In 1951, he founded the Action Group, a political party that ran for elections in the First Republic.
He later founded the Unity Party of Nigeria,
which swept the governorship polls in all the
states in the old Western State as well as the old
Bendel State in the Second Republic.

Tinubu, a Senator in the botched Third Republic,
apart from being Lagos governor for eight years,
was the architect behind the merger of some
opposition political parties into the APC, which
went on to defeat the ruling party for the first
time since the return to democratic rule during
the last general elections.

The APC not only produced the President of the
country, it controls both chambers of the
National Assembly and 22 states, including five
of the six states in the Southwest.
But Bakare, who was running mate to President
Muhammadu Buhari in 2011 under the platform
of defunct Congress for Progressive Change,
CPC, said the APC leader was yet to cross the
kind of rivers Mr. Awolowo crossed.
“What major river did he (Tinubu) cross?” Mr.
Bakare fired back when asked by his interviewer
if the former governor was not qualified to take
the place of the sage, who is widely described as
the last authentic leader of the Yoruba.
Reminded that Tinubu was the major engineer of
the merger that helped to bring the Yoruba
together, the fiery preacher said, “And you think
it was only Bola Tinubu who made that possible.
I see. Which one came first, the chicken or the
egg?” He stated further, “Well, the answer is in the Bible. You are a preacher yourself. God first
created the bird of the air and not eggs. The
birds laid the eggs. If you see the picture of
patriots and Nigerian leaders here, they are all a
collapse of his. "The people who are attempting to wear his (Awolowo) glasses do not have his vision, they attempt to wear his cap but do not have his
brain, they attempt to wear his shoes but do not
walk his ways. Show me the empire that
Awolowo built with public funds. To a Yoruba
man, there is no concept greater than Omoluabi.
“If you get to my father’s grave in a hut he built
in 1922, which is now a museum, there is an
inscription ‘bibire koshefowora” which means
you cannot buy a good pedigree or familial
background. “I am not trying to take the shine off Tinubu’s efforts; he had laboured but he is not in the same class with Awolowo. Regardless of how
many rivers he crosses, he is still Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu and Awolowo is Awolowo.
“I have seen some paintings and pictures out
there of Mahatma Gandhi, Awolowo and others
and I just laugh and wonder why people can’t be
themselves. When God needed a Mahatma
Gandhi, he created one. So he did when he
wanted an Awolowo. He created a T.D Jakes
when he needed one.
“A young man once went to T.D. Jakes and said,
‘Pray for me that God will bless me and make me
like you.’ T.D.Jakes asked him, “Are you sure.”
“He said ‘Yes’ and T.D. Jakes said, “Let us pray.
May you be homeless, go through hardship,’ and
the young man jumped up and said ‘no, no, no,
no, “and T.D. Jakes said, “That is what produces
results”. Mr. Bakare said books Mr. Awolowo authored were still relevant today.
“You need to see books he (Awolowo) wrote and
how they are still relevant today”, he said,
adding that “Years after he left the scene, he is
still the numero uno Yoruba leader. Eagles don’t
flock. You see one at a time”.



www.informationng.com/2015/09/no-matter-how-hard-tinubu-tries-he-can-never-be-in-the-same-class-as-awolowo-tunde-bakare.html

in my own opinion, delta are the real niger-deltas

war don start. oya obj reply

hope say he no wqn go interfere for the tribunal wey dey go on. Hbd to my mum