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This is no rocket science, Sheriff is/was financing Boko Haram!! Sheriff should be investigated and if possible, tortured till he oozes out the truth!! He knows more than he's denying. Awo adiro agba oso ehihe na nkiti (a frog does not run in the open in the afternoon, for no just cause). That nigga is as guilty as SIN!!

Sile12: 17. Airborne laser.
Star Wars fans might like this one. You see, The Galactic Empire had the Death Star, and now the American Empire has the YAL-1A Airborne Laser.Where the Death Star was a moon sized space station with a planet destroying super laser, the YAL-1A is just a 747 with a really big laser mounted on the front.Designed to shoot down enemy ICBMs from hundreds of miles away, the YAL-1A is revolutionary in its ability to destroy a high speed moving target at amassive distance instantly.Picture this scenario. The YAL-1A is flying hundreds of miles away from the battlefield over friendly airspace. Troops on the ground call in an airstrike and radio GPS coordinates to the YAL-1A, which then immediately fires its laser delivering extremely precise killing power on target at the speed of light. No waiting, no warning.

So it's from this weapon that a Nairlander called Airbonelacer culled his moniker from? El gustapo (I hope I got your old nick correctly), I don "cash" you.

New International Version

"A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold." - Proverbs 22:1

My late dad used to tell me; "no matter the good reputations, the good names, you might have amassed for yourself in your lifetime ambitions, it takes just one SINGLE BAD act to send them crashing down with great speed and ruin all your good deeds."

The above quote sums up Oscar's fate. A seasoned athlete, filled with determination and zeal to make it against all odds, not allowing his physical disability get in his way. But just when he's about to start enjoying the fruits of his labours, he goofs and his world came crashing down. Just one singular act, and his resumé of golds/awards won, fame garnered, are all relegated to the background while his manslaughter crime takes center stage in his life. It's so traumatic, he'd to sell his house, the scene of the shooting, because of legal fees. it takes just one sin to blot out all good acts of someone.

Tales of Tiger Woods, John Terry, Bill Clinton, etc., readily comes to mind. They didn't kill of course, but their extramarital
Affairs will stick to them like the flatulence of the residential refuse dump-dwelling mad man through out their lives and when their legends are retold. It's just one bad act.

I remember last year when I first heard about Oscar's manslaughter, I was irked. I wished he'd be killed in return because a nagging feeling told me he'd be let go with lesser punishment(s) if the case goes to court. Alas, he was!! Even though in my heart, I still feel he deliberately and calculatively killed Reeve, but in the absence of a strong evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubts that he actually committed a premedidated murder, I can't fault the judge's decision or still get mad at Oscar. After all, I wasn't there, so I can't really say if the murder was pre-medidated or not.

In all, I wish him the best luck -if actually it wasn't pre-medidated murder- and pray he bounces back, hit the tracks and salvage whatever is left of his bruised and battered image/reputation. R.I.P Reeve.

By Tom Geoghegan
BBC News Magazine

12 September 2014 Last updated at 23:15

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How did one of the world's most successful sportsmen, an inspiration to millions, end up facing a prison sentence after killing his girlfriend?

Breathless after the 75m swim, the boy climbs out of the pool with hi stumps trailing behind him, and into the arms of his friends.
He clambers on to the back of a classmate, Deon, who trots off with the grinning 12-year-old Oscar as cargo.

The second part of the race is an 800m run, and the route stretches ahead of them under a blue Johannesburg sky. As the five young racers pass the netball courts, they leave behind the concrete path and feel the soft grass of the school playing fields underfoot. Cheyne is in front, carrying Oscar's prosthetic legs under his arms.

Oscar is carried over the finish line by Kaylem, who won the race but doubled back to pick up his friend. Like a human relay baton, Oscar completes the race after being passed from one friend to another, according to a pre-arranged plan.

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This vignette from early 1999 at Constantia Kloof Primary School in Roodeport, Johannesburg, sums up the childhood of Oscar Pistorius - never left out, surrounded by friends, often the centre of attention.

But 15 years later, Pistorius is facing a prison sentence after shooting his girlfriend four times through a bathroom door. The attack happened just months after he was the poster boy at the London Paralympics and made history by competing in the Olympic Games three weeks earlier.

The life of Pistorius can be seen in two arcs. There is one story of extraordinary determination - how this boy with no evident running talent at 12 somehow scaled the heights of sport in just a few years. But the second story is how that innocent boy became, as weeks of testimony in court suggested, a man plagued by his temper, with a reckless love for guns and speed.

In one of Oscar's earliest memories, he hurtled down a hill near his home, in his brother Carl's go-kart, as the two of them began a lifelong passion for speed - they were "adrenalin junkies", Pistorius later wrote in his autobiography, Blade Runner.

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As the wall at the bottom of the hill loomed in front of them, with no brakes on the kart, Carl grabbed Oscar's prosthetic leg, yanked it off and pushed it into the wheel to bring the vehicle to a sudden stop.

This narrow escape did nothing to dampen his new addiction - aged four he was riding mini-motorbikes. Soon after he was racing his father at go-karting. Aged 15, he was driving his brother's Golf, and as an adult a speedboating accident nearly ended his career.

This hotheaded adventurousness in the young boy was partly encouraged by his family, who were determined that his disability would not make him a spectator in life. In the Pistorius family, who lived in a comfortable part of Johannesburg, no-one was allowed to say "I can't."

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Born with no fibulas - the smaller of the two lower leg bones - Oscar's legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11
months old. Six months later, he received his first prosthetics, a defining moment in his life, he later said. This plaster and mesh fitted with a lycra "skin" was a liberation. Immediately, he says, he felt invincible and his energy was boundless.

"I believe that it was at this time in my life that my personality was shaped, and that my family was instrumental in laying the
foundation stones of my competitive nature, and of the man that I am today," he wrote in Blade Runner.

His mother was a huge influence. She put inspirational notes into the lunchboxes of her children, and one letter she wrote for him he still keeps: "The real loser is never the person who crosses the finishing line last. The real loser is the person who sits on the side, the person who does not even try to compete."

Getting ready for school, she would say: "Carl, put on your shoes. Oscar, put on your legs." He was different, but equal.

In fact, the young Oscar didn't feel different at all.

"He didn't like to be reminded that he was different because mentally he wasn't different," says Gianni Merlo, who co-authored Pistorius's book. "This was because of the way his mother brought him up as a kid. He has a spirit that is completely different because he was born that way. Without
knowing what it feels like to be normal, you feel normal."

As well as providing an emergency brake for go-karts, there were other advantages to prosthetic legs. Oscar never had to wear cricket pads and he could leave his leg dangling against a hot oven and not suffer terrible burns. Children at the beach marvelled at his small round footprints, while opponents on the rugby field who tackled him were left clutching an artificial limb.

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A major inspiration was a teacher at Constantia Kloof, Tessa Shellard, who encouraged him to take part in sports, even putting him in the school team. for a prestigious nationwide triathlon series, despite him not being the best athlete.

"I gave him the opportunity that maybe others didn't give him. I saw a youngster with a disability but one who had it within himself to persevere. He was like a little hero in my heart that, at that young age, he gave so much."

He usually gave it everything, even though he often came last. That biathlon race, in which he was carried by his friends, came on a day when his prosthetics were hurting him and so they hatched a plan to spare him the pain.

Oscar was bubbly and full of energy, says Shellard, and in 2007 he came back to the school and signed a photo of the two of them, writing: "Times of change, memories still the same, thank you for all the times you helped me up."

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Aged nine, he had his first fist-fight - over a girl - and more followed. The family's response? His father and grandfather taught him how to box. This was the time when he first learned to defend himself, he says, and he later proved on several occasions that he was never slow in lashing out, usually verbally, at people who annoyed him. The most public example was when, after defeat in the 200m at the London Paralympics, he accused Brazilian Alan Oliveira of using illegal blades - an incident captured on live TV.

Despite this pluckiness, he showed little sporting talent in his early teens. That didn't shine until Pretoria Boys School, when he was able to use much lighter prosthetics, thanks to a family friend and design engineer, Chris Hatting.

Initially it was endurance running, not sprinting, that interested him. He was showing ability in 10km races, and enjoying rugby and water polo. His discovery of sports in which he could properly compete, not just take part, meant his schooldays were generally happy - but three life-changing events cast a more sombre light on these years.

The first was the divorce of his parents, which meant Oscar and his siblings were separated from their father and lived with their mother in a smaller house. Perhaps as a way to bridge this distance, his father bought Oscar and Carl a small speedboat and his sons found yet another means to race against each other - this time on water-skis.

Then in March 2002 his mother died. To the 15-year-old it felt like his world's guiding light had been extinguished. He has the dates of her birth and death tattooed on his right arm.

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"Sport was my salvation, as it helped me get through this difficult time," he wrote. "My mother had been a strong woman, the centre of my world. Sporting activity was the only thing that could distract me from such a loss."

To complement his rugby and water polo, he also worked on his general fitness. One trainer, Jannie Brooks, has spoken about how Pistorius used his gym in Pretoria for six months - boxing, skipping and doing press-ups - before he realised he had no legs. "He was just one of the bunch, doing everything at the same pace as everybody else."

A year after his mother's death came the third life-changing event - he shattered his knee on the rugby pitch.

Back with the same medics who had carried out the amputations when he was a baby, his recovery was slow. It was during his rehabilitation, supervised by the University of Pretoria, that he was advised to take up sprinting to help the knee joint recover. At the same time, Hatting - now working for a firm in the US - was working on new, lighter prosthetics and
he invited Oscar to fly to the US to try the Flex-Foot Cheetah blades, manufactured by Ossur.

Three weeks after taking up sprinting, Pistorius ran his first 100m race. With his father watching in Bloemfontein, he won the race in a time faster than any double amputee had achieved before - 11.72s. A star was born.

Eight months later, he won the 200m gold at the Paralympics in Athens and his life changed forever. It was at this moment - September 2004 - that the world woke up to his talent and personality.

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Before long he began running against non-disabled athletes, first in a Golden Gala 400m race in Rome in 2007, finishing second, and then in Sheffield where, in very wet conditions, he finished last.

The question now began to be asked whether his prosthetics gave him an advantage.

It was a huge blow when, the following year, the world governing body for athletics (IAAF) concluded that they did, and banned them. But he fought the decision and won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, paving the way for him to compete in the summer Olympic Games in Beijing later that year. Failing to qualify, he set his sights on
London in 2012, where in due course he became the first track and field athlete to compete in both Paralympic and Olympic Games.

"Oscar, with his personality, athletic prowess and the fact that he was trying to compete in the able-bodied Olympics made him the big breakthrough name, who brought sponsorship in Paralympic sport to the next level, internationally," says Paralympic commentator Tony Garrett, who has known Pistorius since he burst on to the scene in Athens.

Not only was he a very good athlete, says Garrett, one who broke down the barriers between disabled and non-disabled sport, he was a good-looking young man full of vitality, ready to take on the world.

Pistorius has always strongly rejected the suggestion that his fight to compete in the Olympics meant he regarded Paralympic sport as second-rate. He says he just believed it was unfair to exclude disabled athletes from taking part, if they were good enough. "I am not a Paralympic athlete, nor an Olympic athlete. I am simply an athlete and sprinter."

Despite his relatively privileged background, his achievements made him a hero to many south Africans, even if they came from different communities. He was a unifying figure. "For us South Africans," wrote Justice Malala in the Guardian, "it is impossible to watch Oscar Pistorius run without... wanting to break down and cry and shout with joy."

But as the sponsorship deals and media appearances multiplied, Garrett was not the only person to notice a change in the man he knew.

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In 2011, Pistorius had stormed out of a BBC radio interview after taking exception to a question about his fight to take part in non-disabled athletics. Then there was the outburst at the London Games, when he lashed out at Alan Oliveira. Another South African Paralympian, Arnu Fourie, told a journalist he had to change rooms in the athletes' village because Pistorius
was shouting on the phone so much.

"His lifestyle and image changed and clearly something got to him and he wasn't the same person, there were so many demands on his time," says Garrett. "I think he let rip every so often and he wouldn't have done that a few years ago."

Other acquaintances concur that his character subtly altered. Sports journalist Graeme Joffe, who co-owned a racehorse called Tiger Canyon with Pistorius and three others, first met him 13 years ago. Then Pistorius was an athlete of enormous promise and Joffe was really impressed by his confidence and charisma

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"But three years ago, the syndicate was put together and I and some of the other owners met him at the stables. I immediately thought there was something about Oscar that had changed," he says. "He was a different man to the one I had interviewed so many times, in the sense that he was a bit stand-offish and a little bit cold, not his usual warm self."

Joffe says he had taken note of Pistorius's behaviour towards the BBC interviewer, and was aware of an earlier incident when Pistorius, captaining a speedboat, was involved in an accident in which someone could have been killed.

"These were big red flags for me and I was quite surprised that no-one in the media or in his management team condemned it publicly," says Joffe. "He was showing a spoilt-brat attitude that came out a year later at the Paralympics [in 2012] when he embarrassed the country."

This wasn't just about fame going to his head, says Joffe, there were other incidents over the years that suggested an aggressive side and a recklessness that the public didn't see - at least not until the trial.

There was a gun that went off in a restaurant and another shot through a car roof, and the odd verbal and physical fight. The South African media didn't explore this unpalatable side of the national hero, says Joffe. And journalists who questioned whether Pistorius's blades could give him an advantage were given no more interviews.

What did make headlines - at least, in the celebrity press - was the romance with Reeva Steenkamp. The two met in November 2012 through a mutual friend at a motoring event and she agreed to accompany him to an awards ceremony that night as he didn't have a date.

The model was already a reality show star and a regular presence on the cover of magazines. She was also hugely popular. Her best friend and housemate Gina Myers told the BBC this was a woman "as magnificent on the inside as she was beautiful on the outside".

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A friend of the couple, Del Levin, saw the couple at a dinner about two weeks before Steenkamp's death, when Levin's wife, a well known television personality, sat next to her and the two women spoke for a long time. Levin and his wife got the impression the couple, who had then known each other for about three months, were happy.

By his own admission, Pistorius's relationships with women over the years have been turbulent. In his book, he referred to a "particularly nasty argument" here, a "very fiery" relationship there.

"He could get very furious suddenly," says his biographer Merlo. "He spoke of a fire inside. He had tough arguments with girls and afterwards sweet reconciliation. He has always had very beautiful girlfriends. I never saw the temper but sometimes there were situations where it was [apparent]. Sometimes he can explode but I have always seen the bright part of the
moon, I've never seen the dark part."

Before Pistorius became a celebrity, he was very open to people, very friendly, says Merlo, who first met the athlete in 2007 in Rome and began working on the book with him the following year.

People fell in love with him when they met him, he says, but the red carpet wasn't a stage upon which he felt comfortable. "It's not easy for a young guy who becomes a celebrity to follow the light that you see from afar that can be your light."

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Merlo agrees with those who say Pistorius underwent a change. But some friends of the athlete tell a very different story - of a man full of warmth and. fun who overcame life's setbacks and stayed loyal despite his fame.

Levin, a marketing director, says that unlike many in Johannesburg's high society, the athlete was sincere in his affections.

"I wasn't a close friend but I got to know him over the years. He was an amazing, generous and courteous and kind person, easy to get along with, and very willing to share his own experiences and insights.

"Typically when you meet someone on the social scene, they're very cold and stand-offish and particularly if you are the spouse of someone [famous] but he was someone who embraced me from the beginning. He would see me and run over and say 'Hey' and talk, and we would catch up and see how things were. He was definitely not just faking it but genuinely interested in you."

One thing that did strike Levin was Pistorius's fears about security. He had recently bought a new home in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton and talked about how happy he was that it was equipped with more safety features than his house in Pretoria.

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Little did he know that his home would become the subject of such scrutiny in the months ahead. Few bedrooms, bathrooms, doors, duvets, fans and electric sockets have been pored over in such detail.

And instead of enjoying his dream house, his new home could be a prison cell. The freedom and companionship of the sunny playing fields of Constantia Kloof Primary School must seem a world away.

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yorke1: I hope this won't be a waste of MB.

You are booking space should it hit FP, no?

I wonder how much you guys are paid to post on FP topic.

Words on the marble...

This is a brilliant article. It's high time M.I is reminded that loyal fans of his like us are tired of his carefree attitude towards churning good and insightful rap musics. We're tired of listening to Ice Prince's watery rap lines that people confuse for dópe lines.

Nigerian Hip Hop is truly dead when the likes of M.I is refusing to produce creative rap musics like 6foot 7foot (the one in his mixtape), Safe etc., that have massaged the souls of rap music lovers for many years. The Chairman song he put out was a massive flop. What happened to M.I? This brudda use to wow us with beautiful raps musics. When he's serious about making music, he used to make babies whenever he's handling the mic. His raps felt like he's making love to rap music. His raps were cool and deep. He could touch the heart of any music lover with his sleek rhymes. But the M.I I'm seeing now is crappy. Giving up easily (not a trait of a chairman at all). Dwelling on past glories. He's tasted the money like P-Square and now he's relaxing on his past laurels. Too bad!! Good rappers like Phenom and Vector ain't shinning or appreciated because Nigerian music lovers prefer mediocrity.

Please M.I come back, I'm tired of feeding my ears to monumental craps like Ice Prince's Whisky!!

https://maxi2.tooxclusive.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/M.I-CHAIRMAN-1024x986.jpg?a74419

“This was the last straw. If you don’t hear any MI music you know who to blame… No regrets. Except for the fans… I’m sorry. It’s over… I’m finally done with this.”

Only God knows whatever happened that made the one and only Mr Incredible put up such a funny but yet so disturbing post on social media via the popular photo-sharing app, Instagram. You know the truth is I actually had a mighty good laugh reading it. Here’s the thing guys, M.I was kidding. I mean, he must have been kidding. He just had to be kidding… like he really thought we were going to take him seriously on such a costly joke? This is 2014 du-uh! If we reacted based on impulse to everything that crept into the media space and took us by shock every other Monday morning, we’d have all died of a heart attack by now.

I’ve gone over that note, touching as it is and I been thinking, what must have happened? How is it over? What exactly is he done with? Does a simple sorry cut it? And really, no regrets? It’s amazing the kind of things that our human impulses make us do and when these deeds are done, there’s nothing to take back… sadly. The upside would be salvaging whatever’s left of it but the issue is how many actually see the upside? M.I’s note clearly mirrors his feeling of defeat. It tells us that he’s rested on his oars and not only given in to the pressures of settling for less, he’s even thrown in the freaking towel!

No doubt, small (or big) as our industry may seem, the competition is pretty stiff out there. Music acts are jostling to maintain relevance. While the likes of 2face and Sound Sultan can boast a track record of six studio albums, there’s Wande Coal who has managed one album the last 5/6 years, Seyi Shay and Yemi Alade whose debut we’ve been anticipating in earnest and then MI and Wizkid who we’re tired and done waiting for their next album release. Regardless, nobody has caved because life hurled a few lemons at them.

No sane thinking man with a vision and a purpose, chooses to toss years of hardwork vested on a thriving career, in the garbage can. Which is why I’ve chosen to not call M.I out on publicity stunt alleges just like everyone else is doing. Instead, I think his impulses should take blame especially with the series of event that followed after his not carefully thought through slip-up. I’m sure he’s aware how much he’s looked up to by upcomers in the industry moreso, the position he occupies in the
modern revolution of rap/hip-hop in Nigeria. There’s too much at stake for Mr Incredible to close up shop and head home early on a market day. Perhaps he’s nursed the thought a while now and finally thinks he can but we’re here to remind him that he can’t ‘cos we won’t let him.

At this point, I’m reminded of his cut on DJ Jimmy Jatt’s I Am Legend. Sometimes, these superstars need be reminded of where their strength lies and how to keep firing on (one of the may perks of having us as fans). So whatever the turf, he should find solace in those exact words he spat on the track’s fine bars ‘cos by and by, que sera sera!

By Jim Donnett
@jimancipation

http://tooxclusive.com/editorial/m-quitters-never-win/

Words on the marble...

This is a brilliant article. It's high time M.I is reminded that loyal fans of his like us are tired of his carefree attitude towards churning good and insightful rap musics. We're tired of listening to Ice Prince's watery rap lines that people confuse for dópe lines.

Nigerian Hip Hop is truly dead when the likes of M.I is refusing to produce creative rap musics like 6foot 7foot (the one in his mixtape), Safe etc., that have massaged the souls of rap music lovers for many years. The Chairman song he put out was a massive flop. What happened to M.I? This brudda use to wow us with beautiful raps musics. When he's serious about making music, he used to make babies whenever he's handling the mic. His raps felt like he's making love to rap music. His raps were cool and deep. He could touch the heart of any music lover with his sleek rhymes. But the M.I I'm seeing now is crappy. Giving up easily (not a trait of a chairman at all). Dwelling on past glories. He's tasted the money like P-Square and now he's relaxing on his past laurels. Too bad!! Good rappers like Phenom and Vector ain't shinning or appreciated because Nigerian music lovers prefer mediocrity.

Please M.I come back, I'm tired of feeding my ears to monumental craps like Ice Prince's Whisky!!

https://maxi2.tooxclusive.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/M.I-CHAIRMAN-1024x986.jpg?a74419

“This was the last straw. If you don’t hear any MI music you know who to blame… No regrets. Except for the fans… I’m sorry. It’s over… I’m finally done with this.”

Only God knows whatever happened that made the one and only Mr Incredible put up such a funny but yet so disturbing post on social media via the popular photo-sharing app, Instagram. You know the truth is I actually had a mighty good laugh reading it. Here’s the thing guys, M.I was kidding. I mean, he must have been kidding. He just had to be kidding… like he really thought we were going to take him seriously on such a costly joke? This is 2014 du-uh! If we reacted based on impulse to everything that crept into the media space and took us by shock every other Monday morning, we’d have all died of a heart attack by now.

I’ve gone over that note, touching as it is and I been thinking, what must have happened? How is it over? What exactly is he done with? Does a simple sorry cut it? And really, no regrets? It’s amazing the kind of things that our human impulses make us do and when these deeds are done, there’s nothing to take back… sadly. The upside would be salvaging whatever’s left of it but the issue is how many actually see the upside? M.I’s note clearly mirrors his feeling of defeat. It tells us that he’s rested on his oars and not only given in to the pressures of settling for less, he’s even thrown in the freaking towel!

No doubt, small (or big) as our industry may seem, the competition is pretty stiff out there. Music acts are jostling to maintain relevance. While the likes of 2face and Sound Sultan can boast a track record of six studio albums, there’s Wande Coal who has managed one album the last 5/6 years, Seyi Shay and Yemi Alade whose debut we’ve been anticipating in earnest and then MI and Wizkid who we’re tired and done waiting for their next album release. Regardless, nobody has caved because life hurled a few lemons at them.

No sane thinking man with a vision and a purpose, chooses to toss years of hardwork vested on a thriving career, in the garbage can. Which is why I’ve chosen to not call M.I out on publicity stunt alleges just like everyone else is doing. Instead, I think his impulses should take blame especially with the series of event that followed after his not carefully thought through slip-up. I’m sure he’s aware how much he’s looked up to by upcomers in the industry moreso, the position he occupies in the
modern revolution of rap/hip-hop in Nigeria. There’s too much at stake for Mr Incredible to close up shop and head home early on a market day. Perhaps he’s nursed the thought a while now and finally thinks he can but we’re here to remind him that he can’t ‘cos we won’t let him.

At this point, I’m reminded of his cut on DJ Jimmy Jatt’s I Am Legend. Sometimes, these superstars need be reminded of where their strength lies and how to keep firing on (one of the may perks of having us as fans). So whatever the turf, he should find solace in those exact words he spat on the track’s fine bars ‘cos by and by, que sera sera!

By Jim Donnett
@jimancipation

http://tooxclusive.com/editorial/m-quitters-never-win/

noxyify: Big brother is here again and we have just 24 days to go.it feels good to be here for anoda interesting show named big brother hotspots.i lost my password for ginger78 but am glad to be back.Buckle up cos we gonna have one hell of an interesting show dis year and i cnt wait.Shoutouts to @ochon,@ninny,@yinkade,@itsmodella,@sexytabhi,@Amaka,@klisb,@spade,@c”est,@darmah,@jumung pan,@noname,@j&k,@@reincarnated,@ella,@Nobody ,@forkaddict oh! how i miss u and posts and others i dnt remember their names.i looking to seeing u people again for anoda interesting big brother show.love y”all and remain blessed.

Thanks for the mention, Gingerlicious lady. Missed ya. Good to have you back. How are you doing though?

Not sure I'll be following this year's version of BBA. Have got so many workload to handle. Will try and breeze in once in a while though.

KelvinGraphics: My boy... Keezi??

Odogwu nwoke, adim mma o, n'eso uwa nwayo nwayo. Kedu kwanu ife mmadu ga emekwanu? Kedu ka aru di gi? Umu asa gi kwanu? If "hand" no hold any one, pass me her details.

olubukato: [s]Celebrating Nairalanders(who Is Your Favourite Nairalander?)[/s] (who are your favourite nlanders )

Dem too plenty for me..

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The Brazilian smoker demolished no myths. There's always an exception to most rules/truths/lies. Just because he lived long doesn't mean other smokers would be lucky like him. Many smokers have lost their lives to cancers/damaged lungs, don't let this story fool you. Crime doesn't pay generally (as popularily known), but it's paying for some people. Smoking is bad for the health, you don't need no psychic to tell you that.

*in Olamide's voice* Story for the gods. Tell us another folktale.

Lordlexyy: You obviously spoilt a nice post trying to equate Christianity with religion. If Islam is evil say is evil. There's no point trying to blame the wickedness one religion on another. No body who truely live, practice and understand the Christian life ever wish for something else. When a suppose Christian makes preferential to the knowledge of life and light, we know what level he's speaking from. My Christianity is life, peace, joy, prosperity and safety that a religious or non religious world can't offer or guarantee.

You obviously misunderstood me.

Firstly, I can't say Islam is evil in as much as I'm tempted to say it, because not all Muslims are evil and that would be me generalising. Not all Muslims stone their adulterous sisters/brothers. I'm friends with Yoruba Muslims and the way they practice their Islam makes me wonder if theirs are different from that of these extremists like Boko Haramists, Northern Muslims and Pakistani Muslims, etc. They co-habit with other people with different religious beliefs. You can see a Christian and a Muslim in a typical Yoruba home and there won't be blood shedding or bombing. They eat and live together harmoniously. The way me and my Yoruba Muslim friends relate, you would think I'm a Muslim or they're Christians. We don't discriminate, and we love each other so much and respect our religions. They make me love Islam and I make them love Christianity. That's how it ought to be, all these hatred makes my skin crawl. So I won't generalise when I've got good Muslims that don't believe in extremism or terrorism. It won't be fair to them.

Now, I wasn't trying to equate Christianity with Islam. Of course you won't find Christians stoning an adulterous woman, or killing scores of innocent people while screaming "In Jesus name" like the Islamic terrorists do when they scream "Insha Allah" before beheading or bombing innocent people. What I meant by wishing religion did not exist is that; if it didn't exist, many lives lost to religion-related wars, would have been saved.
Take for example, if there were no religions at all, Boko haram wouldn't be killing Christians/masses just so they could achieve their blood thirsty aims. Al-Qaeda wouldn't be carrying out bombings all the world. The brainwashed Almajiris wouldn't be blowing themselves up. The Christian vs Muslims fights could have been prevented. The 9/11 attack could have been prevented. The medieval Christianity crusades wouldn't have happened. The Dan Fodio's Jihad that led to deaths wouldn't have happened.

So yes I'm a Christian, I love Christianity and though I believe that many religious killings are perpetrated by radical Islamic sects; I'm still of the school of thoughts that if there were no religions, many lives would have been saved. Imagine if there was no religion, Hitler wouldn't have killed over a million Jews.

Hosea 4:6 - my people perish from lack of knowledge.

It's too bad these Almajiris don't know who their real enemies are - their present and past leaders who have looted their destinies away. Atiku with all the money he looted doesn't give a squat about his town's people. From IBB to other past Nothern rulers, none care about their state's masses. They'd rather them remain in poverty and illiteracy so they can serve as destructive weapons for these wicked rulers whenever they want.

Check out all the tales about these Almajiris/Boko Haramists, they usually retrace back in their abode - the FOREST, after each raid. If Borno and other Northern states were developed like Lagos and Abuja, they won't find easy bushes/forest to hide. So much backwardness and illiteracy has eroded any human conscience and sense in these Almajiris, thus rendering them as terrorist tools. It's so sad.

*in Olamide's voice* story for the gods.

This is so sad.
I'm filled with pain as I type this. Why would someone in this modern age be stoned as if he or she is still in the medieval ages? The dark ages. What sort of demons are these? Why stone your fellow human for adultery because of your religion? Same way they shot the young Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, that stood up to the Taliban's insurbodination. What happened to law courts? What happened to justice? What sort of madness is this? What about the man she slept with? Is he more superior to this woman and shouldn't be punished? Why are women treated like slaves and objects in these Arabian countries? This is what the Sudanese woman passed through when they sentenced her to death for apostasy before world spoke out for her.

Is this what Boko Haram is trying to impose on Nigerians? This news sends cold shivers down my spine. These extremists have hearts of stone, I doubt blood flows through their veins.

Even though I'm a Christian, sometimes, in my quiet moments, I wish religion didn't exist, many lives would have been saved.

We don't know what we have till we loose it, because seeing the kind of freedom we have here in Nigeria to change to any religion we want without being stoned, makes me appreciate this country the more, no matter how low we've fallen from our grace.

And so? This ain't news. Without USA we will and must survive. If not for corruption and incessant looting by our old leaders that've refusd to relinquish power to the younger generations, we shouldn't be looking forward getting financial assistance from USA. We've the funds and strength to finance ourselves and solve our problems; but unfortunately, those money are in the personal accounts of our leaders.

Jesus Kristi!! This is so sad. Innocent lives are being wasted daily!! No place is safe - land, water, airspace.

R.I.P to the dead. May God grant their families the fortitude to bear these losses.