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very true and quite hilarious. But trust me most of those abnormalities you mentioned are very evident in most developing countries. Especially the security guards asking for tips and the bad time keeping.

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nikkypearl:

Elantracey:

Out of curiosity, you ladies can download the app and see for yourselfs lol
here ;
www.brideprice.com.ng/

here

screenshots

The Nigerian bride price app, which has
gone viral since it launched in May,
calculates the marital value of a woman
by pricing attributes such as her height,
weight, beauty, cooking skills, education
and dialect.

A disclaimer on its website says it is “a joke,
and that is all there is to it". But for Nigerian
women it is a joke as costly as an
investment with Bernard Madoff. Some
examples of the app's 'pricing system':
women with legs shaped like Beyonce’s or
gap-toothed women score more highly
than others; women who can’t cook
traditional food like pounded yam can
make a bargain (you can always make her
take cooking classes later, right?), and while
a Masters Degree increases a woman’s
'monetary value', a PhD lowers it, according
to this app. (Professorship? – forget it if
you want to be wife material.)

The value of skin colour that ‘the
elders’ (whom the app ‘consults’ for the
final bride price) decides upon froze my
face in a bittersweet expression: a "Lupita"
complexion (as in that of Kenyan/Mexican
actressLupita Nyong'o) is worth as much
as that of a "half-caste", according to the
app. Though it is encouraging to see the
‘Lupita effect’ on beauty ideals, both,
exhaustingly, are worth more than a
woman who is "dark", the app says.
Modernising tradition through technology
is super cool, so I kind of getwhy people
find the app positive and funny. I
appreciate that the app sets an example of
how old customs can become part of
contemporary life. And I dig theinnovative
spirit of social media marketing with a
political twist.


Users are asked to answer
simple questions about themselves or
people they would like to evaluate as
potential brides.
Questions range from; height, "facial
beauty", skin colour: light skin is worth
40,000Naira ( £146), while dark skin
20,000Naira (£73) to education, nationality
and accent (English attracting the highest
value of 45,000Naira (£165).
After the questionnaire is completed, the
following phrase pops us: "Please wait, the
elders are consulting."
Then the price is revealed.
The app, available on Twitter, is causing
outcry as it is seen by many as a grave
violation of women's rights.

Here are some screenshots from the apps. what are your thoughts ??

More than 50% topic on NL are based on politics

I don't need pictures of Mary to believe in miracles. afterall, more miracles exist outside the catholic church contrary to op's points

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All na wash. As long as corruption is still glorified, nothing good will come out of this country.

I thought they (muslims) have always hated westerners. Why not go to Mecca to protest instead. In my opinion, Washington should turn deaf ears on them while Israel shows them what its like to be terrorist.

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What can an atheist possibly say that would catch my attention. Absolute nothing!!

* Slams the door and works out on thread.*

Ashonibarenla: we all know that little children love to play with sticks and sharp objects, should we give it to give them, and let it poke their eyes out? Take that as a parable, or better still, a word of wisdom.

Well the last time I checked, the Igbos are 2nd to only Hausa in terms of population aswell as the most educated people in your Nigeria. So I don't get your theory about letting little children play with sticks and sharp objects. Mind you it is free world you can't force ppl to be with u forever. No one is asking for war but if Nigerians are not reasonable enough to let BIAFRANS have their own Republic, them let history repeat itself but trust me this time its gonna go the other way round. God Bless the Land of the Rising Sun!!!

Yes they live longer but yet they grow old faster then men. How about that ??

I wonder what happened to black face and co. ??

LordMecuzy: So I should abandon my two filling stations here in Kaduna n run bk to my Ngor Okpala in Imo State

Rubbish Massob bigots dat think it's so easy to relocate business!

So I shld return to d east as a poor man

Abeg I rather Die Here in Kaduna biko

Afterall I must die someday

My brother take it easy no one is asking you to return back home empty handed. If you die today those filling stations and other properties you may own will not go with you so why attach importance to material things than life itself. Just like the OP or MASSOB correctly said, you don't need a Prophet to tell you that the north is not save and would be worst during next years elections. My advice as a brother is to use wisdom and start relocating your family and wealth back home because 2015 won't be a childs play especially in Kaduna.

Note: I was born and raised in KD City and has seen all the crises and bomblast plus my parents are currently there but are already working on relocating before December.

Hahahah Scapegoat you must be the sickest clown alive.

I really excited about this news. Yookos has gone far and wide. Probably one of the best Christian Social Network out there.

Airforce1: Thank god he haz accepted christ

The fear of 14yrs jail term in nigeria is the beginning of wisdom

Hahahah soo true no be person go tell am. Anyway, all thanks to God

namesake making us proud

chacoonder: ..i think u meant to say scariest right?..yea, u are right ...but have u ever pondered on why it is called the silent killer?

I have no idea it even called that.

chacoonder: I think malaria fever is the deadliest of all. Historical records suggest malaria has infested humans since the beginning of mankind.

Yes it could be one the deadliest in history but definitely not the scrarist today.

macsika: i thought this virus was discovered this year.

Ebola has was first identified in 1976.

Source http://www.ranker.com/list/the-top-13-most-incredible-viruses-on-earth/analise.dubner

6. Dengue fever
[b]Kills: [/b]25,000 Deaths a year

Also known as ‘breakbone fever’ due to the extreme pain felt during fever, is an relatively new disease caused by one of four closely-related viruses. WHO estimates that a whopping 2.5 billion people (two fifths of the World’s population) are at risk from dengue. It puts the total number of infections at around 50 million per year, and is now epidemic in more than 100 countries.

Dengue viruses are transferred to humans through the bites of infective female Aedes mosquitoes. The dengue virus circulates in the blood of a human for two to seven days, during the same time they have the fever. It usually appears first on the lower limbs and the chest; in some patients, it spreads to cover most of the body. There may also be severe retro-orbital pain, (a pain from behind the eyes that is distinctive to Dengue infections), and gastritis with some combination of associated abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting coffee-grounds-like congealed blood, or severe diarrhea.

5. Influenza
Kills: 500,000 Deaths a Year

Influenza has been a prolific killer for centuries. The symptoms of influenza were first described more than 2,400 years ago by Hippocrates. Pandemics generally occur three times a century, and can cause millions of deaths. The most fatal pandemic on record was the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918, which caused between 20 million and 100 million deaths. In order to invade a host, the virus shell includes proteins that bind themselves to receptors on the outside of cells in the lungs and air passages of the victim. Once the virus has latched itself onto the cell it takes over so much of its machinery that the cell dies. Dead cells in the airways cause a runny nose and sore throat. Too many dead cells in the lungs causes death.

4. Hepatitis B
Kills: 521,000 Deaths a Year

A third of the World’s population (over 2 billion people) has come in contact with this virus, including 350 million chronic carriers. In China and other parts of Asia, up to 10% of the adult population is chronically infected. The symptoms of acute hepatitis B include yellowing of the skin of eyes, dark urine, vomiting, nausea, extreme fatigue, and abdominal pain. Luckily, more than 95% of people who contract the virus as adults or older children will make a full recovery and develop immunity to the disease. In other people, however, hepatitis B can bring on chronic liver failure due to cirrhosis or cancer.

3. Rotavirus
Kills: 61,000 Lives a Year
According to the WHO, this merciless virus causes the deaths of more than half a million children every year. In fact, by the age of five, virtually every child on the planet has been infected with the virus at least once. Immunity builds up with each infection, so subsequent infections are milder. However, in areas where adequate healthcare is limited the disease is often fatal. Rotavirus infection usually occurs through ingestion of contaminated stool. Because the virus is able to live a long time outside of the host, transmission can occur through ingestion of contaminated food or water, or by coming into direct contact with contaminated surfaces, then putting hands in the mouth.

2. Ebola
Kills: More than 100 Lives a Year

Once a person is infected with the virus, the disease has an incubation period of 2-21 days; however, some infected persons are asymptomatic. Initial symptoms are sudden malaise, headache, and muscle pain, progressing to high fever, vomiting, severe hemorrhaging (internally and out of the eyes and mouth) and in 50%-90% of patients, death, usually within days. The likelihood of death is governed by the virulence of the particular Ebola strain involved. Ebola virus is transmitted in body fluids and secretions; there is no evidence of transmission by casual contact.

There is no vaccine and no cure.

1. HIV
Kills: 3.1 Million Lives a Year
Human Immunodeficiency Virus has claimed the lives of more than 25 million people since 1981. HIV gets to the immune system by infecting important cells, including helper cells called CD4+ T cells, plus macrophanges and dendritic cells. Once the virus has taken hold, it systematically kills these cells, damaging the infected person’s immunity and leaving them more at risk from infections. The majority of people infected with HIV go on to develop AIDS. Once a patient has AIDS common infections and tumours normally controlled by the CD4+ T cells start to affect the person.