₦airaland Forum

...Nigeria needs national energy policy, regulatory programmes and innovative financing mechanisms...

This part got me thinking.
I know Nigeria's need can actually be met through renewable energy.
My question: can Nigeria sustain a programme beyond a 4-year political time plan?

we are begging Buhari to see to the price of PMS

I hope it's not the BAT we know that you just killed. I learnt he was at Atiku's daughters' wedding

How??

the palm scrubbing the back and the back doing same to the palms. #shared loyalty#

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mfana ibaha



In tuface's voice

Buhari, your association with this bunch will not help in sustaining the image you've portrayed to the populace. Think baba

after the raggae play the.......
This is the same news my ancestors read in 1742 edition of Newswatch magazine

i don't get it. How?

sparkleRed:
Present my country, those agitating 4 biafra should nt shout goal mbok

eyen Uyo

Where is APC na?

Crime everyday. Na wa o

How?

FIFA Presidential election candidates confirmed 4 hours ago.

The election is to find a successor to Sepp Blatter
Seven candidates will stand in Fifa's presidential election on 26 February.

The candidates are:
Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Musa Bility, Jerome Champagne, Gianni Infantino, Michel Platini, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa and Tokyo Sexwale.

Trinidadian ex-footballer David Nakhid was not included on the list, despite saying he had submitted his candidacy.

The election is to find a successor to the suspended Sepp Blatter, who is under criminal investigation.

The Swiss 79-year-old announced he would be stepping down in June, with world football's governing body at the centre of a corruption scandal.

Analysis from BBC Sport's Richard Conway
"David Nakhid's candidacy has been invalidated due to the fact he only received four valid football association nominations. Candidates require five.
"It is understood one national association nominated both Nakhid and another candidate. Under the election rules that would invalidate the nomination.
"Nakhid's camp are believed to be writing to Fifa to demand an explanation as to how and why he has been barred from running."
Who are the Fifa candidates?

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, 39, is president of the Jordan Football Association (Full profile)
Musa Bility, 48, is president of the Liberian Football Association (Profile)
Jerome Champagne, 57, is a former Fifa executive (Profile)
Gianni Infantino, 45, is Uefa's general secretary (Profile)
Michel Platini, 60, is Uefa president and Fifa vice-president (Full profile)
Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, 49, is Asian Football Confederation president (Profile)
Tokyo Sexwale, 62, is a South African former government minister (Full profile)
Platini, the head of European football's governing body, is also suspended, but Fifa's electoral committee says it may allow him to stand if his ban ends before the election date.

Fifa and Swiss prosecutors are investigating reports that a £1.35m payment was made in 2011 for work Platini did as Blatter's adviser.

Both men deny any wrongdoing and are appealing against their 90-day bans.

All candidates had to obtain the written backing of five football associations under Fifa electoral rules.

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria has summoned an emergency meeting of its national caucus to discuss what it calls “onslaught against the party and its candidates in the last general elections, by the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government”.

In a statement on Monday, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said the caucus would meet on Thursday, October 29.

He said talks would focus on “the unrelenting schemes by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Federal Government to use some unpatriotic elements in the judiciary to advance their plot to take over states won by the PDP, particularly Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Delta, Taraba and Abia states”.

“The national caucus meeting is in furtherance of the decision of the leadership of the party to fully activate its structures in stiff resistance to the manipulations, coercions and threats of the APC-led government, and in line with the unbending determination by the party not to, in any way whatsoever surrender any mandate freely given it to
by the people at any level across the country, no matter the pressure,” the statement further read. Sourrrce: http://www.channelstv.com/2015/10/26/tribunal-verdicts-worry-pdp-calls-emergency-meeting/

Nothing to believe again.

Udom is becoming popular by the day. but he shouldn't try to walk in anyone's shadow

ja.

shokky24:
Flat yansh,flat bweast
Not my type

see your life? 14 years jail term no be beans o

stale joke

is it in a movie or...?

name checkers are disappointed. with those names up there, this must have happened in banana republic. abi na kenya?

is the writer of this article trying to give boko haram an unnecessary bragging right to keeping secrets? I dey suspect you o.

Bananas are one of the world's most popular fruits, stuffed with vitamins and minerals. On the face of it they are good for you, so why do some people think they could be fatal?
One well-known figure who has spread this idea around is Karl Pilkington, the grumpy friend of comedian Ricky Gervais.
"Before when you were talking about bananas... I had that fact, about if you eat more than six, it can kill you," he said in one of his conversations with Gervais and fellow comedian Stephen Merchant.
"It is a fact. Potassium levels are dangerously high if you have six bananas... I saw a bowl of bananas. There's six bananas there. You know why there's only six? Seven would be dangerous."
So how dangerous is potassium? Actually, it is crucial for survival and can be found "within every single cell of the body," says Catherine Collins, a dietitian at St George's Hospital in London.
"We use it to help generate an electrical charge which helps the cell function properly. It helps keep your heart rate steady, it helps trigger insulin release from the pancreas to help control blood sugars, and more importantly keeps blood pressure in check."
On the other hand, if the level of potassium in the body is too low or too high it can result in an irregular heartbeat, stomach pain, nausea and diarrhoea. Potassium chloride is even one of the chemicals used in lethal injections in the US, as extremely high doses can cause cardiac arrest.
But for a healthy person, "it would be impossible to overdose on bananas," says Collins. "You would probably need around 400 bananas a day to build up the kind of potassium levels that would cause your heart to stop beating... Bananas are not dangerous - and in fact they are, and always have been, very good for you."
Adults should consume about 3,500mg of potassium per day, according to the UK's National Health Service. The average banana, weighing 125g, contains 450mg of potassium, meaning a healthy person can consume at least seven-and-half bananas before reaching the recommended level.
There are some people who should steer clear of foods that are high in potassium though, warns Collins - those with kidney disease.
"These patients have a very low kidney function which can potentially see a build-up of harmful potassium levels in their blood stream because they can't get rid of the mineral when they pass urine," she says. "So in theory it is possible for someone with kidney disease to die of a high blood potassium level if they decided to consume lots of different food types rich in the mineral."
She once had a patient on dialysis who had a heart attack after eating too many tomatoes - another fruit rich in potassium. His kidneys had already stopped working so he was unable to get rid of the excess.
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Another thing that could cause some to worry about bananas is radiation.
Like many foods, bananas naturally contain some radioactive isotopes - enough for the US-based think tank, Nuclear Threat Initiative, to warn that they can trigger sensors used at US ports to detect smuggled nuclear material.
A typical banana contains 0.1 microsieverts of radiation. To put that in context, a typical CT scan in a hospital exposes humans to between 10 and 15 microsieverts.
"The levels of radioactivity are negligible," says Collins. "Bananas are not as radioactive as Brazil nuts and they are safe to eat in moderation."

I don't believe any lady would be this dumb. No way.

Can wearing a pendant make you safe? Yes - if you believe five 22-year-old Delhi engineering students who have created "Safer".
On the face of it, Safer is a large-ish gem pendant set in steel casing, and worn on a steel chain.
But this piece of attractive jewellery (available in colours like blue sapphire, emerald green and onyx black) has a small triangular chip embedded in the back which, if pressed twice, connects to an app that then sends out an alert to designated mobile phones of "guardians" who can then track the wearer's location and movement on Google Maps.
Paras Batra, the sales head at Leaf, which has created the pendant, says he started thinking about a product to provide safety to women after the December 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a bus in India's capital, Delhi.
"I live in Munirka, the area in south Delhi from where this young woman boarded the bus in which she was attacked. I was very disturbed by it and felt that we needed to do something about it, to make the city safer for women," he says.
He talked it over with his childhood friend Shirk Kapil, who brought in his college mates Ayush Banka, Manik Mehta and Avinash Bansal, who then began discussing a product.
"We considered a shock giving jacket, but then we thought how many women would wear a jacket in the city's heat? We considered lots of other ideas and then we thought, women like to wear jewellery and that's how this beautiful pendant was born," says Mr Kapil, who heads Leaf's mobile app development and graphic design team.The "Safer" pendant has been priced at 3,500 rupees ($53; £34) and ahead of its launch in November, is being sold at a discounted price of 2,700 rupees ($40; £26).
The device has won several Indian and international awards, including the prestigious Lockheed Martin National Innovation Award. Later this month, the young innovators will be at Silicon Valley as one of the "Top 10 Innovators of India".

The Safer team comprises five 22-year-old Delhi engineering students
Since the Delhi rape, a plethora of mobile phone apps and other devices have been launched to make women feel safe in India, but none of them have caught on because either they are impractical or too cumbersome.
Panic-button devices are also not a new concept - they have been used for the elderly and children for many years and in the past couple of years, the idea of a panic button in a pendant or other jewellery has been explored in the US, Singapore and Malaysia, says technology writer Prasanto K Roy.
So what is it that makes Safer different?
"The apps have not worked because the phone is generally kept in the bag or pocket and in distress, crucial time is lost while you find your phone, unlock it, and find the safety app from the millions of other apps on your phone," says Chiraag Kapil.
Also, he says, Safer is "superior" to other pieces of smart jewellery in the market because it has a chargeable battery while other products run on batteries that have to be replaced after a while.
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The pendant comes in three attractive colours
Safer works for up to 10 days on a 15-20 minute charge, says Paras Batra, adding that "it's idiot proof - it will work as long as you don't put it in the microwave".
Mr Roy agrees that it is a good idea to have a trigger outside the phone that is easily accessible, though he says the pendant seems "a little obtrusive" as a piece of jewellery because "it's quite big".
Also, he says a panic button is a good idea, but in India, "we don't have the law-enforcement-response ecosystem - like the US emergency number 911 - for it to be effective".
"Still, an alert to friends and family with location is better than nothing. Sometimes, even a call back from family or friend, in response to an SOS, can save the day," he adds.
The big challenge now for the Safer team is to raise the money to make the product commercially viable.
"We are raising money through crowd funding, we've also managed to interest some investors who have pledged funds. So we hope our dream to put a Safer pendant in every woman's hand will soon become a reality," says Paras Batra.

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