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hisexcellency34:
He should be deported like his brother in Kenya

Why? There's no racism here... he's just continuing in the lovely tradition of Lagosians to "bole ka ja" when somebody bash ur car. And our Naija guy was forming big boy inside motor. Come out and let's get down.

Notin do am jare.

Teebillz... she is not your woman anymore. You bleeped up, and still want to be claiming ownership from afar. Mtchew. If I ever get a chance I will date Tiwa, and make sure you see it on Instagram.

So you that cheated on your wife, publicly, severally with a bevy of ladies, even when she was in hospital, have some gut to want to say who she may or may not date? Mr. steal your wife's money? Mr. cheat your talented singer? Mr. irresponsible? Maybe you've grown up, but a leopard never changes his spots.

F*ck what you say, and gerrarrahere men.

Predictably, some guys here are calling Florence all kinds of names...
These same dudes have no issue sampling all kinds of women and nobody calls them names. Niggas please!

ednut1:
Killed a man. Must we always play the race card

Yes. The way cops have been killing blacks, harassing blacks, arresting blacks... it is the first thing on our mind. Any black person is now at risk.... you're not even safe in your own house.

Na wah oh... you can't even be a black man in your own house again? RIP brother

If you drive, police will shoot.
If you shop, police will shoot.
If you work, police will shoot.
Kukuma stay home, police will still come and shoot.

What kind of life is this, bikonu?

drakeli:
How are pencils ordered on Amazon in the US made in Nigeria? Believe bloggers at your own risk. That’s US Amazon shipping carton.

You're right... perhaps it's just an Akwa Ibom guy donating general school wares to his child's class. I got blinded to the swindle of the bloggers.
Chai.

dkronicle:
Chaii see stupiidity. Which country can be proud of manufacturing pencil in 2018. Why is that that people dont want to be serious at all. Any ways I'm already planning big for my unborn children.

If we don't start (at pencils), we'll never get there. At least let teachers and pupils in America start seeing pencils made in Nigeria. We need all the positive promotion and motivation we can get. This export/donation (whatever we want to call it) is a very good idea and I would like to see others emulating.

Story. So instead of slowly gathering money to get the items on the list, your boo spent money on plane ticket for you, just so he could tell you he could not afford those items?

So the FG implements a program that has been in the planning stages for a while... na bad tin?
SO what if it coincides with timing of election? Should they do it after the election? Then you would be saying they're doing it because of 2019. Or that they should have done it earlier.

People are complaining that APC is buying votes... what about the hungry people who are selling their votes? We won't blame them too abi?

This issa not a goal, sorry.

Demmzy15:
The reason for the adjustment by Pope Gregory was because of Christian holidays:

The Gregorian calendar was a reform of the Julian calendar. It was instituted in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by papal bull Inter gravissimas dated 24 February 1582.[4] The motivation for the adjustment was to bring the date for the celebration of Easter to the time of year in which it was celebrated when it was introduced by the early Church. The error in the Julian calendar (its assumption that there are exactly 365.25 days in a year) had led to the date of the equinox according to the calendar drifting from the observed reality, and thus an error had been introduced into the calculation of the date of Easter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

So I'm still very much correct, and as for the names not being changed, the the only possible reason is the pope was okay with it. As it is known that early Christianity adopted many pagan customs and so they saw nothing wrong with this. So the Gregorian calendar is a Christian calendar because it was developed solely on Christian holidays!

... and Easter is a Spring festival ... rebirth, new baby rabbits, green tree branches, planting season... things that happen way before anybody died and rose (conveniently during the festival of rebirth, after the death of winter). They're all quite intertwined, really.

So yes, it's a "Christian calendar" in that the Church was the government of the day. I don't think the decision was made in isolation of pagan traditions nor of the cycles of nature in northern Europe (which is quite different from the climate of Jerusalem, which maybe sees 1 or 2 days of snow per year).

If it had happened - say during Roman times (or the Romans were able to stamp out the upstart religion called Christianity), or later at the behest of the British Empire... we wouldn't necessarily call it a "Christian Calendar".

As you point out, the Gregorian Calendar kept most of the elements of the Julian one, because the Julian actually made sense from the start, just a few adjustments due to inaccuracies. The change would have happened with or without the Church eventually.

Demmzy15:
So you're saying Islam had nothing to with science, maths, medicine, etc?

Actually, a lot of the basis for modern scientific thought, maths, and medicine were formed by the Islamic world while the Europeans were ultra-devoted to religion. I've edited my post to reflect this. As the Christian world stopped thinking only of the afterlife and religion (and started thinking about the here and now), the Muslim world reverted from it's enlightened age into suppression and conservatism.

Motion123:
So Gregorian Calendar as now become Christian calendar U can imagine some professors heading some of the groups. Abi Na buy dem buy the professorship

Demmzy15:
You're a dummy, if Gregorian calendar isn't Christian, what is it then? Sanyo worshippers calendar abi

Jaqenhghar:
Mr. Man. Dont let hatred cloud your judgement. There is nothing chirstian about that new year. If it is , show us where in the bible it was writte
that January 1st is a holy day. Christians use that day to go thank God for another year.

Demmzy15:
Can you also show me where it is written that December 25th was the day Jesus was born and also why do y'all celebrate his birthday when he never mentioned or encouraged you to do such

These significant dates are a result of the interplay between institution/civil administration, traditional culture based on nature/planting/harvesting/seasons, as well as work by the Church.

January 1 gets its origins from the Romans/civil administration.

December 25th has its origins in a pagan celebration of the Sun (just after the Winter solstice and the days are now getting longer, and makes people hopeful for a brighter Spring, after three months of short, cold, dark Winter days). There was already a festival way before the Church adopted it for the celebration of the birth of Jesus.

If Islam had been more dominant (it's about 700+ years younger) - and had continued to pursue science and maths instead of becoming ultra-conservative - it might have determined the dates and when the celebrations happened around the world. After all we owe a lot of things to the medieval Islamic world - geometry, trigonometry, algebra, the numeric system, logic, and so much more. It just so happened that Islam entered it's own Dark Ages just as the Christian West was exiting its own, and didn't go on to provide the standard for commerce, shipping, navigation, or modern science. Perhaps around the year 2400, the Islamic ultra-conservatism will exit the Dark age.

Demmzy15:
DUmmy, this calendar is pope Gregory not Julius Caesar. That of Julius Caesar is known as the Julian calendar, while the one we use is by Pope Gregory. Know the difference.

Funny, I thought I'd explained the origin for New Year, and also why the month is called January. I didn't state that we currently use the Julian calendar, and explicitly mentioned the changes and reasons why we use the Gregorian calendar now. To reiterate:

Janus, Julius, Augustus are names, among others, given to months by Julius Caesar, who established the basis for the calendar we use now. By the time of Pope Gregory, the slight inaccuracy of calculating the exact number of days (down to a few thousandth) in a year led to Spring/planting season happening later and later (relatively to the equinox, and onset of Spring thaw, among other concerns). To fix the error, Pope Gregory commissioned a refinement to more accurately reflect the length of a year. From the wikipedia article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

"The Gregorian calendar ... is named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October 1582. The calendar spaces leap years to make the average year 365.2425 days long, approximating the 365.2422 day tropical year that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun. The rule for leap years is as follows:

Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the year 2000 is.

The calendar was developed as a refinement of the Julian calendar, shortening the average year by 0.0075 days to stop the drift of the calendar with respect to the equinoxes. To deal with the 10 days of accumulated drift, the date was advanced so that 4 October 1582 was followed by 15 October 1582."

Of course, even this is not as precise as we'd like in the modern age, which is why we have the concept of leap seconds which accounts for the fact that Earth's rotation is slowing down... very important when talking about precise timekeeping, GPS, and satellites orbiting fast enough where the effects of "Special Relativity" start being noticeable.

I happen to know this because I spent three years working on time-precision embedded computer systems, almost a decade ago, so I can assure you that I know the difference.

enoch273:
Did God let him keep his beauty after casting him out of heaven

Nobody knows. I don't know. Neither do you, and neither do the humans who wrote the book. The one description of him describes his beauty. There's no mention of how if he transformed or why he would need to be transformed after being cast out. Of course, that we imagine all angles in the Christian pantheon as Caucasian (and not Asian, Black, or Indian), is indicative that nobody really knows what they look like, but since all of initial Christian art is European in origin, they drew them in their own image and imagination.

There's a nice summary on http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zwjjxsg

"If someone asked you to picture the devil, you would probably imagine a red demon with pitchfork in hand. But for hundreds of years, the Christian devil – also known as Satan – did not feature in any religious artwork. When he eventually did, he was depicted as blue, without a horn or hoof in sight. Our familiar image of him emerged as generations of artists and writers took the little the Bible says about Satan and re-imagined the devil over time."

Cheers

enoch273:
This one don near grave finish, I am sure Lucifer now go dey vex say person dey follow a drag ugliness.

Ironically, Lucifer was described as the most beautiful Angel - a golden-haired white man apparently, looked even more beautiful than Angel Gabriel - according to the people who wrote that book of Greco-Judean myths anyway. Funny enough people's imagination depict him as a reddish half-goat creature with horns, who looks an awful lot like Pan, taken out of Greek mythology.

January 1 is not a religious holiday, so why are these groups demanding a "muslim holiday" for the the marker of a complete orbit around the Sun*? They should go and ask Julius Caesar, of Roman times, why he made that decision, to which he might reply:

"I thought it would be appropriate for the god Janus (from which January is derived) to be the usher to a new year. The actual position in the year is rather arbitrary, but perhaps midway between when the days are shortening to when they are getting longer again (Winter vs Spring in Rome) seems a logical choice."

Some cultures celebrated New Year in March, and others in September (equinox depending on if you're in the Northern or Southern hemisphere), and some on the shortest day of the year (Winter Solstices, around December 20). However, those cultures didn't have the dominance of the Roman Empire, so...

*Though due to a miscalculation (actually not keeping enough decimal places) in the number of days in a year (Romans thought 365.25, it's 365.242199), Jan 1 slipped by 11 minutes every year. That was fixed by the Gregorian civil calendar (named after Pope Gregory XIII), who introduced it in October 1582. ... To deal with the 10 days of accumulated drift, the date was advanced so that 4 October 1582 was followed by 15 October 1582.

Movic1:
Men like me are more attracted to your Brain than your Boobs,ass whatever Even if you have fullstop as breast i don't care... The brain of a woman matters most.. What's the use of big boobs without brain....

Shuo?! Some men can lie for Jesus sha!

After you carefully looked her from head to middle you want to yarn "sapiosexual"... ok, I don hear

slays... rocks... na mate. Just a small girl wearing sturves. Slow celeb news today huh?

Meanwhile, we're celebrating old trains and a tarred road.

Unless, of course, you defect to APC and kiss PMB's shoes. Then all sins are absolved. I really wish Nigerians will carry sense to enter 2019 elections.

Arysexy:
See as hateful and envious afonja are hyperventilating on this thread like accident spirits trying all their best to rubbish this Great Scientist of our time bc he is Igbo. Spits on their chamfered coneheads

One even said he didn't complete his PhD, does that stop him from his research that earned him accolades?

Again I spit on their ewedufied faces

It's one thing to work hard and be recognized for brilliance (Phd or not). This charlatan should be called out for who he is. I used to be enamored of his achievements about 2 decades ago (who would not, as an Igbo speaking young Black aspiring scientist myself?), but started realizing over time that this dude was a fraud. His accolades are a result of false packaging and fraudulent representation. There is no honour in hyping up a fake and we need to expose him as such.

Nwanne, we have many many brilliant minds of Igbo descent - many of them are recognized and acclaimed around the world for their genuine contributions - but this Emeagwali fellow is a disgrace to that legacy.

Unfortunately, this Emeagwali fellow is a fake and fraud. All his claims to fame have been debunked, and the little prize he "won" in 1989 was not anything close to the "Nobel of Computer Science" (obtained by technicalities even though his results were worse than the winning entry); his "first to program a hypercube" is false; as is his claims to patents (can't find a single posted one by the USPTO). Oh, he also cannot use the title Dr. to his name, since he never earned it (coming close is not the same as finishing your PhD program).

See:
https://www.nairaland.com/534775/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-way/24
https://www.nairaland.com/177876/philip-emeagwali-genius-crook
https://www.cbwlondon.org/the-lies-of-philip-emeagwali
http://saharareporters.com/2010/11/02/tragedy-philip-emeagwali-how-gordon-bell-prize-gbp-ruined-him

for a quick summary of this fraud.

Jflex07:
Why not donate it to the almajiris and the northern beggars who are causing nuisance to the entire country

For the same reason you didn't donate the money you used for data subscription to said beggars... you decide how you want to spend your money.

Not a fan of PMB, but if people are willing to put their money where their mouth is to support him, I have to admire that. If they are happy with 4 more years of PMB, I'm curious why and how people like me can also enjoy from PMB's administration, rather than just complain. Because obviously it's benefitting some people.

What is wrong with some men on this board? So it's Dons prick that she's using to feed? That's what selling out shows and taking Nigeria to the world? Someone can't be grateful to a genius record label and producer without people hissing and insinuating? When she complains that being a woman in the industry is hard (because of these borderline misogynist attitudes) they will once again cast aspersions on her character? Haba!!!

I'm not a fan of last minute efforts to influence voting (and I'm no fan of PMB), but I have to admit that based on the policies I've been seeing in the past few weeks, PMB may have just won himself another term.

Oh, I understand... this is a US-centric fear of Chinese dominance in trade with Africa.

They didn't complain when they were making all those loans in the 70's and 80's via IMF and World Bank that crippled most African economies until 2000's. They didn't complain when the money was used to buy their own products, with interested paid on top. Now that their lunch is being threatened, they're pointing out the dangers of loans...

Chinese entrepreneurs are investing heavily in Africa, hiring labour and building infrastructure. They are also a cheaper source of goods and machinery that African entrepreneurs are buying and using to boost our economy.

Around the world the USA is retreating - insulting friends and allies all the way - and China is quietly stepping in to fill those shoes, making deals with Europe, with Japan, with the rest of Asia, and with Africa. No dogma or imposing their views, just doing business.

I don't know the veracity of this story, but if true...

Pushing a bus to rally for Rochas who won't fix your roads or provide good drainage to your town/village... it seems our mumu never do.

englishmart:
So? Should I fry Buhari?

No... but take inspiration that you can do anything you set your mind to. For me, I'm not a tattoo artist, but I can take encouragement that this real estate thing I'm trying will eventually work out - even though it's so tough right now.

Pinkberry5:
This trash shouldn't be on fp

So he's proud to inject people's skin with ink and later have those people spending money on cancer drugs?

He could have been an artist or something.
Na wah for Naija sha

He is an artist. A tattoo artist.
By your judgement, people should not make beer, or sell eggs, or add salt to food, because, you know, those thing damage your liver, give cholesterol, and contribute to high blood pressure, respectively.

Moral of the story: don't stop, keep pushing on.
We have many talents in this country, and I wish our education and economic system would encourage us to be more entrepreneurial instead of looking for a job.

lastempero:
People don't even know how Chinese loans work, I guess China wants to throw away some of their obsolete Telecom technology n they will be using Nigeria as their dump site because Iam sure their loans doesn't come in cash. They will give u the obsolete technology together with manpower n even labourers that will execute the project.

Of course! It's the greatest plan: throw away your old equipment, convince some idiot countries to pay for it, loan said countries to buy your obsolete equipment, then charge them interest on the loan.

I'm just shaking my head... these our leaders - from when they were lieutenants, till generals, till old men - have not once thought to increase our capacity for self-development. It's been 50-some years since Buhari was in his twenties... China and Korea went from backward impoverished countries, to a highly-developed economies... and he still things that buying technology is the way to go? None of these people have thought to study the examples right in front of them? SMH. With people like him in charge, we will still depend on foreign countries to make pencils for us in 2050. I can't wait for this current crop of old folks to keel over and die, so that the pre-colonial mentalities die with them.

NobodyKnows:
Less than 12 hours wey baba land for China .we are already seeing positive results.
Mehn PMB is sweet mehn .
Sai baba till 2023 mehn .
Na the previous visit give birth to Lagos -Ibadan rail way.
More to come . God bless APC

Because a loan of $328 Million that will be repaid with interest, used to buy Chinese equipment, with no viable plan from this government to grow the economy sounds like a good idea abi?

We won't use $328 million to grow agriculture, fund SMEs, improve healthcare, or fix our universities - things that will grow our economy. Phones and cell towers are nice, but a loan facility does not bode well if used for purchasing consumer goods. You see, we will consume the cell phone and the equipment that come with them, but we will not have added an iota of engineering knowhow or job creation to our country, so where's the economic growth to pay for it?

BTW Isn't this the same PMB that was saying we won't take loans? Isn't this how we got into the massive debt that necessitated the SAP that crippled our economy for decades?

By the time we have to service the debts on these loans being made by the PMB administration, of course he would be long gone, his kids well taken care of, while we and our children will spend the last of our days paying more and more to service the debts.