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PediakAuthor:
The pencil-work reflects a chapter of the Chess Of Nature - with the ultimate goal to celebrate the beauty of the indigenous Y'ooba language.

In sum, this multilingual artwork is a localized tutorial on how to play the game of Chess.

The NETISM Author is also a well-seasoned English-Yoruba Technical Translation Service Provider.

Cheers...

#ChessInYoruba By Jawolusi Oluwaseun S. - @jawolusy

dru23:
For transmission fluid ....plz check to make sure the car really needs transmission fluid o... Transmission fluid is not like engine oil that you often o....... If the fluid is still pinkish color than it is ok .. But if it is dark it might need to change ......either way seek professional advice before doing to avoid premium tears......


For engine oil that should be change .. Changing engine oil will not damage your engine.... Look at the oil cap .. Your car uses 0W20 .. Below pic is a 2010 of mine...

empirebosscrew:
... What do we do?

topcatking:
Dear OP, you just taught everyone of us how to commit fraud. Thank you.

oroagba:
Nice writing op. Memories! Independence Day used to be something to look forward to, especially on NTA. Let me assist you a bit:

♪Nigeria is 25
The odds we did survive
Arise salute the nation
Come join the celebration
A people united will never fall

*The sun will shine and the rain will fall
On our land vast and mighty
Richly blessed by the Almighty
Like bees in the hive we work so hard
To make the honey flow...
***********************
Nigeria is 25!
is 25!
Nigeria is 25! ♫

Sang by Bongos Ikwe I think

naptu2:
Independence Day celebrations of the 1970s and 1980s (Videos and Memories).

♪Nigeria is 25
The odds we did survive
Arise salute the nation
Come join the celebration
A people united will never fall
***********************
Nigeria is 25!
Nigeria is 25!
Nigeria is 25! ♫

In the French quarter of New Orleans, John Edgar Browning is about to take part in a "feeding". It begins as clinically as a medical procedure. His acquaintance first swabs a small patch on Browning’s upper back with alcohol. He then punctures it with a disposable hobby scalpel, and squeezes until the blood starts flowing. Lowering his lips to the wound, Browning's associate now starts lapping up the wine-dark liquid. “He drank it a few times, then cleaned and bandaged me,” Browning says today.
To Browning’s bemusement, he was not quite to his host’s taste. “He said my blood was not as metallic as it should have been – so he was a little disappointed,” he recalls; apparently, diet, hydration and blood group can all make a subtle difference to the flavour. After they had cleaned up, the pair went to a charity dinner in aid of the homeless....read the rest here http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151021-the-people-who-drink-human-blood

adaweezy:
The greatest thing that Abubakar Audu has going for him in his bid to return as Governor of Kogi state is the decibel of a large youth demographic. So many Kogi folks, 25 years and below, are all over the airwaves telling the rest of Nigeria that they don’t know what they are missing by not having somebody like Abubakar Audu. The love they are professing for Abubakar Audu is greater than the love story between Ekiti and Fayose. Audu, they assure us, must “capture power” again in Kogi.
Via APC. Of course!
Now, if your instinct is to blame these kids and land koboko on their post-pubescent asses, you are wrong. What is happening is that they are confused. They are mistaking weed for spinach because they do not know the difference. What elaloro in Yoruba philosophy asks you to do is to hold spinach in one hand, weed in the other, and say to them: children, here is weed and here is spinach. Once you have done that, you can ask for water, wash your hands like Pontius Pilate, and sing owo mi ma re o funfun nene…
You must remember that if there is something the Nigerian detests more than fellow Nigerians of a different ethnicity or religion, it is memory. The Nigerian who witnessed yesterday deliberately erases it for the convenience of today. The Nigerian who was too young to witness yesterday will never dig to find out what happened, laziness and ignorance being preferable to the inconvenience of memory and remembering.
Many of Abubakar Audu’s vuvuzelas were in Primary and Secondary school when he stole US$1,719,954 from the treasury of Kogi state to purchase the mansion pictured here on March 15, 2001. The mansion is located at 12301 Glen Road, Potomac, Maryland 20854, USA. He initially denied owning the property but later confessed after a scandal. Nigerian political thieves have no relationship with mortgage in Europe and America. They buy their multi-million-dollar homes fiam. Just like that.
Many of Audu’s young supporters are not intellectually equipped enough to make the connection between this mansion in America and their own abjection in Kogi; the connection between this mansion and the poverty of their parents in Kogi. You will likely hear that others have stolen more than Audu and even with his own stealing, we ought to be grateful to him for building a University, a Polytechnic, clinics, etc. It will take several modules in civics to help them see that they do not owe anybody spending their tax money on routine infrastructure any gratitude.
So the purpose of this post is to bring memory to these youths since they will not go to memory.
A final word to these young Kogi people: in 2014, Potomac, where Audu’s mansion is located, was Number 3 on the list of the most affluent neighbourhoods in the entire United States of America.
Of course, you know that a Nigerian politician would consider it an insult that his property is not located in the most expensive neighbourhood in America. When you are done electing him in November 2015, his next mansion in America will be located in The Golden Triangle, Greenwich, Connecticut.
I have shown you weed.
I have shown you spinach.

saintrise:
Get someone to use abro and flush the engine sensor...my Honda accord 2003 started have such funny issues after the engine was washed....flush d engine sensor with abro or fuel...

Inside South Africa's whites-only town of Orania
By Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Orania
6 October 2014
From the section Africa
A Welcome to Orania signpost

In the sparsely populated Karoo desert in the heart of South Africa's Northern Cape, the spirit of apartheid lives on.

I spent a few days in Orania, a town established in 1991 where no black people live.
I was part of a BBC crew, including Zimbabwean journalist Stanley Kwenda, who were accredited to visit.
And during that time, Stanley and I were the only black people in the town of 1,000 - an unusual experience in modern South Africa.

It is an Afrikaner-only town, where only Afrikaans is spoken, because of fears about "diluting culture".
"We do not fit in easily in the new South Africa. It [Orania] was an answer to not dominating others and not being dominated by others," says Carel Boshoff Jr, the community leader.

Mr Boshoff is one of the leaders of the town founded by his father Carel Boshoff Snr, an Afrikaner intellectual and son-in-law of apartheid architect, Hendrik Verwoerd.

The town was founded by Mr Boshoff Snr as a registered company shortly before white-minority rule ended in the rest of the country.

Mr Verwoerd's grandson tells me that his people were faced with a tough question about their future when the black government was elected in 1994.
"In terms of Afrikaners who had been standing very close to the state, when the policies such as black economic empowerment and affirmative action came into place, Afrikaners needed to seriously think about their future. It wouldn't make sense not to," he said.
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) was introduced to encourage more black participation in business.
Orania has also proved to be the answer for those Afrikaners who felt displaced in the land their people had ruled for many decades.
"I see nothing wrong with apartheid," says Martin Kemp, one of the older residents.
"Of course you get the petty apartheid: 'You use this toilet I use that toilet', I don't think that was necessary but the real apartheid as Dr Verwoerd saw it, there was nothing wrong with it," he said.

We were taken on a guided tour of the town's facilities by John Strydom, a retired doctor.
The town's leaders insist that Orania is misunderstood. "We are not against black people. We are for ourselves," is their message.
However, black people cannot live here.
Prospective residents are screened by the town council using a strict criterion, which includes first and foremost being an ethnic Afrikaner.
It is not enough to simply speak Afrikaans, as is the case with many black and mixed-race South Africans.

As we sat down with Mr Boshoff for a cup of what the cafe described as "proper Boere [Afrikaner] tea… strong", I took in some of the surroundings.
Near the entrance of the gated community was a statue of Mr Verwoerd, one of a few of the apartheid-era prime ministers, and the Orania flag - with similar colours to the old republic's orange, white and blue horizontal stripes - which hung proudly.
The town was quiet; the sound of birds and rustling leaves interrupted by a few cars passing by. It is an eerie place for an outsider.

Afrikaners in South Africa:
South African Afrikaner curator of Orania Museum, Gideon de Kock poses on 17 April 2013 in Orania
Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch, German and French settlers who arrived in the 17th Century
The Dutch, who arrived in 1652, took over land from local people and put them to work as farm workers
Afrikaners dominated South Africa for many decades and introduced the apartheid system which was based on racial segregation
Orania was established in 1991, by Afrikaner intellectual Carel Boshoff Snr
The town is built on 8,000 hectares of farmland along the Orange River

The town boasts amenities such as shops, hair salons, a library, a post office, a hotel, a couple of schools - and churches, a lot of churches.
But beneath the surface of this solitude lurks a fear that leads people to abandon high-paying jobs in the city for lowly jobs in this arid land.
"The levels of crime and violent crimes in South Africa are definitely pushing powers that bring people to Orania. Many of them have been victims of crimes," says Mr Boshoff.
South Africa is considered to be one of the most violent societies in the world, with one of the highest murder rates.
Official statistics suggest that most crimes actually happen in poor communities between people known to each other, but this has not stopped the fear of crime in other communities.

As a result, Orania officials say the town has had an annual growth rate of nearly 10% since its inception.
The Afrikaner community's totem is the "the little giant", a man with rolled-up sleeves who features in the flag and the local money, the Ora which is pegged to the South African rand.

All jobs are done by white people in Orania - no outside workers are brought in

The people do their own work from gardening to plumbing, bricklaying and waste-collection - jobs usually done by black labourers in the rest of the country.
"It takes some adjusting to. It is more difficult for some people because they are used to how things were done in South Africa, they are not used to manual labour," says Mr Strydom.
The locals explain that one of the goals in Orania is to help create a generation of pure Afrikaners untouched by the "outside world".
Bizarrely, the town's existence is protected by South Africa's constitution through a clause that ensures the right to self-determination - introduced to reassure those worried about the transition to democracy.
With its old Cape-Dutch styled houses it is like stepping back in time, but some families fear this place could eventually be too small for their children.

George van Staden moved from Johannesburg recently after he was offered a job in Orania.
Mr Van Staden says his two children are enjoying life in the countryside but he and his wife are preparing them for a world where there is not just one race or culture.
"There is no tertiary institution here for example. They need to be equipped to handle the outside world," says Mr Van Staden.

After four months in Orania, George and Tisha van Staden say they are still adjusting to the new "rules"
"I teach them that there is no difference in skin colour. I teach them if they respect the people in Orania they must also respect the people outside Orania," his wife Tisha adds.
Another couple, Theunie and Annelize Kruger, say they are still adjusting to Orania's rules, which include getting permission from the town council before receiving visitors.
"We understand it but it's a bit frustrating at times," Mr Kruger says.
'Defend with our lives'
At the local bar, framed newspaper articles hang on the wall and Afrikaner memorabilia adorns the place.
The owner, Quintin Diedericks, is well-travelled but became disillusioned with South Africa and moved to Orania with his wife, a beauty therapist, about four years ago.

Orania, established in 1991, has its own school
"It's very safe here. We sleep with the doors unlocked. You can walk in the street at 3am without any fear. You don't have that where you live," he tells me.
He blames FW de Klerk, the last Afrikaner to rule South Africa, for the plight of his people.
"He gave away the country for nothing. We had the army," he says and stops abruptly, beginning to shake his head.
Inside the dimly-lit pub, a game of rugby is on the TV, apart from a few odd glances, no-one seems to pay much attention to Stanley or me.
A few more locals do come over to our table and conversation is polite and largely politically correct, much like in the rest of South Africa.
The pernicious issue of jobs and pro-black policies rears its head.
One local explains it as "reverse racism".
"We can't get jobs. It's like we are being punished for the past," he says.
They seem oblivious to the oppression of black South Africans during apartheid. For them it was a system that gave order.
"It [apartheid] didn't affect me. So many people get aggravated now for things they didn't even witness. It's over, move on," says Yolandie Jonk, 29, a call centre agent.
As the sun sets, the bronze busts of Afrikaner leaders spanning over many decades - Paul Kruger, JBM Hertzog, DF Malan, JG Strijdom and, of course, Mr Verwoerd - look protectively over the town.
Held in disdain elsewhere, they are Orania's heroes - yet it is difficult to see how the community will be able to remain so completely isolated in such an inter-connected world.
But as one pub drinker put it - being an Afrikaner in Orania is "something we will defend with our lives if we need to".

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