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Walahi this guy keeps earning my respect!
But many will rather live like the proverbial ostrich.
The issue of tribalism can never be separated from Nigeria, the more we keep burying it, the more it keeps resurrecting like the phoenix.
The solution is true federalism or to your tent o Israel!

ahahaha

OK, thanks, I will try on monday

I dey Ikeja, do you know any specialist in Ikeja?

Any one in the house can get me details of how I can get Dell inspiron service centre in Lagos?
My Dell inspiron of a year and half started giving 7 beeps and not booting.
I checked online and I found many people with similar problem, a motherboard issue, it has to do with the heat melting some solder on the chip.
One of the fix I saw is to wrap it up in blanket while beeping for 15mins and after, to cool and power on.
I did that and to my amazement, it started working!
The problem now is that its no longer charging!
The charger light is on, but immediately I plug it into the laptop, it goes off!
While googling, I discover that the problem is from a short on the motherboard.
I need professional help as soon as possible cos i'm working on a very important project.
Please anyone with professional help is welcomed

Thanks

For those who are interested in registering, here is the site:

http://applicants.mars-one.com/

http://247ureports.com/jonathans-attack-dog-doyin-okupe-in-multi-million-naira-contract-scamquizzed-by-efcc-moves-to-kill-case/

Was Sowore lying?

The bible is very right!
What you sow, you shall reap

***Removed the video*** (una talk say make we no dey post such video, anyway, it was appropriate for the topic)


No drugs can give you something in this video between 0 and 15secs
Na genetics!

For your information!
Are you all aware, there is no fan and A/C in the houses and hotels in Ethiopia?
Even their air port does not have air conditioning of any sort, just the natural air blowing in and out
I was in Addis Ababa last December and I'm still amazed till now, the weather is damn cold round the year (no snow, though)

naptu2: Do you mean the LWT theme tune? It's Chariots of Fire (the jazz version). It was one of the first songs I learnt to play on the keyboard.

Yeah! thats it

Kennyblues: Sura the Tailor and Koko Close (Oluwalambe Lodge, Hawaii Five 0 and Speed Raiser

Ahahahah

Sura the tailor,
Oko Adunni,
The friend of Major,
Expert in Soro, Danshiki and Buba,
Also English coatu and trouser
..........Joiny man
A trial will convince you!
Sura, surah, sura the tailor is your man (*2)



Never knew, i will remember that theme song!
except the word b4 the joiny man

Na FEYIKOGBON naa!
Ajirebi et al and the LWT (Lagos Weekened Television) of old,
If i can rememeber!
I think, its chinese films on friday night, Indian films on Sunday and American films Saturday!

I can still remember the catchy tune!
Who knows the song?

Memories!
My dad bought a vcr and we were the only family on the street that owns one with color tv!
Used to be a don in those days
My favourite then was Sholay, Ghazab, Dostana, love in Tokyo and Nagin!

Also you guys should not forget those crazy chinese films
Shaolin temple and drunken master

And i must not forget those baddest American b-movies
Equalizer 2000, Robocop etc

Odikwa serious!

orlaryhincah2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeT92VamPRU
Surfing the internet and found this video on facebook, this is too bad.
http://www.yhincatainment.com/2013/04/wife-beheaded-for-cheating-viewer.html

[size=13pt]Enough Internet for today! [/size]

Jakumo: Did somebody mention the legendary Monkey and Baboon, of the Boko Haram terror and "Blood Will Flow For Every Election I Lose" fame ?

Say no more. Here he is in all his glory.

JAKUMO!
What is it with you and Buhari?
I noticed, any time the name is mentioned, you go into frenzy

This is the opportunity for Fashola!
Can i get a witness here?

Why are you all complaining?
Don't you all know, GEJ's fresh air is highly corrosive?
Even to the National Flag?

Where is that Idi amin scoffing gif, when you need it

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Days later, the survivors’ faces tensed at the memory of the grim evening: soldiers dousing thatched-roof homes with gasoline, setting them on fire and shooting residents when they tried to flee. As the village went up in smoke, one said, a soldier threw a child back into the flames.

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Women and children in front of burned houses in Baga, Nigeria, after as many as 200 civilians were killed in an assault that survivors blamed on soldiers. Though civilian casualties have been viewed as routine, the size of the death toll has created an uproar.

Even by the scorched-earth standards of the Nigerian military’s campaign against Islamist insurgents stalking the nation’s north, what happened on the muddy shores of Lake Chad this month appears exceptional.

The village, Baga, found itself in the cross hairs of Nigerian soldiers enraged by the killing of one of their own, said survivors who fled here to the capital of Borno State, 100 miles south. Their home had paid a heavy price: as many as 200 civilians, maybe more, were killed during the military’s rampage, according to refugees, senior relief workers, civilian officials and human rights organizations.

The apparent size of the civilian death toll — staunchly denied by Nigerian military officials, some of whom blame the insurgent group, Boko Haram, for the carnage — has prompted an unusual uproar.

Though heavy civilian casualties are routine in the military’s confrontation with Boko Haram, with dozens dying in poor neighborhoods since 2010 as the army searches for “suspects,” Nigeria’s politicians usually have little to say about them. Past massacres of civilians in retaliation for soldier deaths have passed largely with impunity.

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This time, there have been calls in Nigeria’s national assembly for an investigation, and the government has come under harsh criticism at home and abroad, including the United States. The military has said it has begun its own inquiry, and some longstanding observers of the country’s heavy-handed fight against Islamist militants say a tipping point may have been reached.

“This is coming at a time when we have had similar situations” elsewhere, said Kole Shettima, chairman of the Center for Democracy and Development in the capital, Abuja. “People are tired of the excuses the military is giving, and that’s why they are demanding an investigation. This time it’s different. There is a crisis of legitimacy in the military.”

But in a country where corruption abounds and accountability is rare, others wondered whether it would truly become a watershed moment — or get brushed aside as an unfortunate side effect of fighting a dangerous insurgency.

“This Baga is just on a bigger scale, but they have been doing this for ages,” the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, one of the first officials to reach Baga afterward, said of the military. “They’ve not adhered to the rules of engagement,” said Mr. Shettima, who is not related to the democracy advocate. “When you burn down shops and massacre civilians, you are pushing them to join the camp of Boko Haram.”

Yet, he continued, “we are in a Catch-22 situation.” Boko Haram is a deadly insurgent force that needs to be confronted, the governor said, but not by a military that terrorizes its own people. “We need them to carry out their duties in a civilized manner.”

Some Baga residents who did not perish in the flames drowned while attempting to escape into Lake Chad, refugees here in the state capital said. Others were attacked by hippopotamuses in the shallow waters, officials said. Soldiers shot people as they ran from the burning houses, refugees said.

“Many dead, many dead,” said Mohammed Muhammed, 40, a taxi driver from Baga. “People running into the flames, I saw that. If they didn’t run into the flames, the army will shoot them.” As flames enveloped the houses — “they used petroleum,” he said of the soldiers — he fled into the surrounding desert scrub.

“If you come out” from the flaming houses “they will shoot you,” he said. “Please, sir, charge them in the international court!” he shouted.

Isa Kukulala, 26, a lanky bus driver who had left Baga that morning, gave a similar account: “They poured petrol on the properties. At the same time, they are shooting sporadically, inside the fire. They took a small child from his mother and threw him inside the fire. This is what I have witnessed.”

Hundreds of residents fled into the bush, where they lived for days in harsh conditions, and are only now trickling back into the town. “The aged people, the people that couldn’t run, most of those people were burned,” said Antony Emmanuel, a fish buyer. “Small children, their parents left them, they were burned.”

Borno State officials have said hundreds of houses were destroyed in the blaze.

The army has effectively blocked many journalists from getting to Baga — it is in a zone where Boko Haram exercises partial control — and it kept out relief agencies until the middle of last week. Cellphone service has been cut off. In a brief statement a week after the episode, Brig. Gen. Austin Edokpaye, the commander of the multinational joint task force — Nigeria shares intelligence with neighboring countries, though its soldiers generally do the shooting — said one soldier was killed “while 30 Boko Haram terrorists lost their lives” and “unfortunately six civilians” were killed. Ten “other civilians were injured in the cross-fire,” he said.

Nigeria’s director of defense information, Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, angrily rejected the accounts of residents and others. He said that “the burning, the killing is done by Boko Haram, not by the soldiers. Anybody blaming the soldiers must be a sympathizer with Boko Haram.” He said that “Boko Haram was using the houses to shoot out at soldiers.”

But the picture given by civilian officials in relief agencies and state government, along with the one presented by refugees, was very different, with the vast majority of deaths attributed to the military.

“More than 200 dead, this is what people in the town confirmed,” said a senior relief official who asked not to be identified out of fear of retribution by the military. “Actually, my boys told me the number is far higher than the 200 reported,” the relief official said.

A senior official under the governor, Mr. Shettima, who is not affiliated with the governing party, said: “The soldiers went on a rampage. Because, you know, that’s what soldiers do in Nigeria. It’s really crazy here.”

General Olukolade responded angrily to such assertions, saying, “The politicians intend to create a haven for Boko Haram around our state.”

In the accounts of refugees and officials, the killings started after a few gunmen, most likely Boko Haram members, engaged a detachment from Baga’s military post in a firefight on the evening of April 16.

“Two people came, they said they were Jama’atu,” said Mohammed Bella Sani, a fisherman from Baga, using Boko Haram’s name for itself. Boko Haram has a heavy presence in that area of fluid national borders, officials say, and has even chased away all government presence, including officials and police officers, from many rural districts.

In Baga, the soldiers went for reinforcements after one among them was killed, residents said. “A team of soldiers came back shouting, and they started firing indiscriminately,” Mr. Sani said.

“They set my neighbor’s house on fire, and people started running back to save the neighbor,” said Mallam Ali, a bus driver. And the soldiers began shooting into the crowd, he said.

“They were firing from the armored vehicles,” said Alhadji Adamua, a clothing seller at Baga’s market. “I saw them putting fire on people’s houses. They are the security of the state. They have no right to kill anybody. They are supposed to protect the people.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/africa/outcry-over-military-tactics-after-massacre-in-nigeria.html

Eko Ile: Some leaders makes you feel ashamed to be a Nigerian while with leaders like this man, it's the other way around, they make you not only proud to be a Nigerian, but also make raise up your head and gladly say you are a Nigeria..

This is why we must vote for men with brain cells in their skull rather than bayelsa water, come 2015!

These monsters are gross and obscene!

I could remember my 1st Jamb in d Year 2010 I was sitting 4 Use of English.

I shaded d ones I know and was waiting 4 MANNAs 2 fall When I noticed a very beautiful girl sitting beside me. She was shading and was not looking up.

Through d help of my long neck, I peeped and checked her work, she was already in no 65. I was still in 21 and time was almost out. I quickly thanked God and started shading along wit her until we got 2 no 98 together. Suddenly, She looked up, caught me and shouted in a low Voice.
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'What are It?, Why is U copying me?, Copys! Copys! You is not shaming! As big as U dey! You is a dulls boy! You are a disgrace Ur Manhood!'

Na so I shout, "Hey!!! Hey!!! Hey!!! I am finished! I don die 2day! 5 minutes more? Abeg! Who get Erazer! Somebody Help!!! Abeg!

copied from fb

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What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.

The One Laptop Per Child project started as a way of delivering technology and resources to schools in countries with little or no education infrastructure, using inexpensive computers to improve traditional curricula. What the OLPC Project has realized over the last five or six years, though, is that teaching kids stuff is really not that valuable. Yes, knowing all your state capitols how to spell "neighborhood" properly and whatnot isn't a bad thing, but memorizing facts and procedures isn't going to inspire kids to go out and learn by teaching themselves, which is the key to a good education. Instead, OLPC is trying to figure out a way to teach kids to learn, which is what this experiment is all about.

Rather than give out laptops (they're actually Motorola Zoom tablets plus solar chargers running custom software) to kids in schools with teachers, the OLPC Project decided to try something completely different: it delivered some boxes of tablets to two villages in Ethiopia, taped shut, with no instructions whatsoever. Just like, "hey kids, here's this box, you can open it if you want, see ya!"

Just to give you a sense of what these villages in Ethiopia are like, the kids (and most of the adults) there have never seen a word. No books, no newspapers, no street signs, no labels on packaged foods or goods. Nothing. And these villages aren't unique in that respect; there are many of them in Africa where the literacy rate is close to zero. So you might think that if you're going to give out fancy tablet computers, it would be helpful to have someone along to show these people how to use them, right?

But that's not what OLPC did. They just left the boxes there, sealed up, containing one tablet for every kid in each of the villages (nearly a thousand tablets in total), pre-loaded with a custom English-language operating system and SD cards with tracking software on them to record how the tablets were used. Here's how it went down, as related by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte at MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference last week:

"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android."

This experiment began earlier this year, and what OLPC really want to see is whether these kids can learn to read and write in English. Around the world, there are something like 100,000,000 kids who don't even make it to first grade, simply because there are not only no schools, but very few literate adults, and if it turns out that for the cost of a tablet all of these kids can simply teach themselves, it has huge implications for education. And it goes beyond the kids, too, since previous OLPC studies have shown that kids will use their computers to teach their parents to read and write as well, which is incredibly amazing and awesome.

If this all reminds you of a certain science fiction book by a certain well-known author, it's not a coincidence: Nell's Primer in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age was a direct inspiration for much of the OLPC teaching software, which itself is named Nell. Here's an example of how Nell uses an evolving, personalized narrative to help kids learn to learn without beating them over the head with standardized lessons and traditional teaching methods:

[b]Miles from the nearest school, a young Ethiopian girl named Rahel turns on her new tablet computer. The solar powered machine speaks to her: "Hello! Would you like to hear a story?"

She nods and listens to a story about a princess. Later, when the girl has learned a little more, she will tell the machine that the princess is named "Rahel" like she is and that she likes to wear blue--but for now the green book draws pictures of the unnamed Princess for her and asks her to trace shapes on the screen. "R is for Run. Can you trace the R?" As she traces the R, it comes to life and gallops across the screen. "Run starts with R. Roger the R runs across the Red Rug. Roger has a dog named Rover." Rover barks: "Ruff! Ruff!" The Princess asks, "Can you find something Red?" and Rahel uses the camera to photograph a berry on a nearby bush. "Good work! I see a little red here. Can you find something big and red?"

As Rahel grows, the book asks her to trace not just letters, but whole words. The book's responses are written on the screen as it speaks them, and eventually she doesn't need to leave the sound on all the time. Soon Rahel can write complete sentences in her special book, and sometimes the Princess will respond to them. New stories teach her about music (she unlocks a dungeon door by playing certain tunes) and programming with blocks (Princess Rahel helps a not very-bright turtle to draw different shapes).

Rahel writes her own stories about the Princess, which she shares with her friends. The book tells her that she is very good at music, and her lessons begin to encourage her to invent silly songs about what she's learning. An older Rahel learns that the block language she used to talk with the turtle is also used to write all the software running inside her special book. Rahel uses the blocks to write a new sort of rhythm game. Her younger brother has just received his own green book, and Rahel writes him a story which uses her rhythm game to help him learn to count.[/b]

http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php

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Talk about roaming charges.

NASA has launched three smartphones into orbit as part of a low-budget, experimental satellite program that uses off-the-shelf components.

The three Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones are circling Earth at an altitude of about 150 miles and will burn up on re-entry within the next two weeks, NASA said. The smartphones, which are encased in 4-inch metal cubes, are running the Android operating system.

The mission of each PhoneSat is simple: Snap photos of Earth and send back periodic radio messages. The goal is to see just what the smartphones are capable of, and whether they can supply the "brains" of future satellites, according to NASA officials.

The launch occurred Sunday, when Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket lifted off from Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. By Sunday, amateur, or ham, radio operators had already begun notifying NASA that they had picked up radio signals from the satellites, according to Ruth Marlaire, a NASA spokeswoman.

One of the goals of the program is to build a satellite that costs less than $10,000 using off-the-shelf equipment. (The PhoneSat's UHF antenna is actually a piece of a carpenter's tape measure.)

The smartphones aren't entirely stock, however. There are two PhoneSat 1.0 craft that have larger, external lithium ion batteries, as well as one PhoneSat 2.0 that has solar cells.

Ironically, when engineers began planning the device, the Nexus One smartphone was perhaps the best on the market. Now it's considered out of date and no longer sold.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-nasa-smartphone-satellites-20130422,0,439021.story?track=rss

1964 Group Photo of the Sea Dog Pirate Confraternity at the University of Ibadan

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Who is the Blue Arrow pointing to?

na2day!:
Where is that pastor transforming into a jet gif when you when you need it

Here You Go!

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...isn't Mongolia pretty poor too?
It's like a homeless man asking a homeless man for some food.
Maybe they should ask Somalia for rice too, very sad!

NORTH Korea can no longer feed its people and has begged for food aid from Mongolia, it emerged today.

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Starving North Korea has requested food aid from Mongolia

The North, suffering under dictator Kim Jong-un's cruel regime, cited a "severe" shortage of food and requested aid during a recent meeting with Mongolia's President Ts. Elbegdorj.

"We ask Mongolia to seek possibilities of delivering food aid to North Korea," an article by InfoMongolia said.

Millions of people live near starvation at the secretive state, and children orphaned by misfortune or their parent's imprisonment, often die from malnutrition.

Chilling video footage recently documented a 10-year-old-boy starving to death on the streets of North Korea.

Survivors of the regime have revealed how food is often used as leverage to control starving people.

Malnutrition is so severe that the North Korean populace is even shrinking in height, experts say.

North Koreans used to be taller than their South Korean counterparts, but now, most men are lucky to exceed 150cm in height, according to analysis.

The shrinking is related to nutrition, and first became widespread in the mid 90s when North Korea experienced a famine so severe people were reduced to eating weeds and grass.

Today, according to the World Food Programme, "one in every three children remains chronically malnourished or 'stunted', meaning they are too short for their age".

Desperate people have even resorted to cannibalism, according to multiple reports.

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Starving orphans in North Korea

A defector now living in Australia recently claimed that human flesh is served up to eat in the country’s third largest city, as starving people struggle to feed themselves.

Sung Min Jeong, 44, claimed that in Chongjin – a city at the tip of the North Korean coast – a shopkeeper serves up human meat.

Fears that famine-stricken North Koreans are being forced to eat human flesh heightened earlier this year following claims a man was executed for murdering his two children for food.

Those caught selling human meat face execution, but one source told the North Korean Refugees Assistance Fund: "Pieces of 'special' meat are displayed on straw mats for sale.

"People know where they come from, but they don't talk about it."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/393846/North-Korea-begs-for-food-aid-from-Mongolia-as-starving-state-faces-severe-shortage

The late Chief J.K. Randle died on 17th December, 1956 shortly after returning from Melbourne.
He led the Nigerian contingent to the Melbourne Olympics in Australia in 1956.
Late Chief J.K. Randle was a Lagos elite and very influential. He was a philanthropist, entrepreneur and a man of the people. He led the Nigerian contingent to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in Australia. He died shortly after returning to Nigeria in December 1956.
It will be recalled that the Nigerian team to Melbourne included; K.A.B. Olowu (Captain) (100 metres and Long Jump); R.A. Oluwo (Pole Vault); J.O. Chigbolu; V.O. Gabriel (High Jump), E.A. Ajado (100 metres and relay).
Others were; T.A. Erinle (100 metres and Relay), (deceased); T. Obi(100 metres and Relay) (deceased),A.K. Amu(400 metres and Relay) (deceased); P. Esiri (Triple Jump) (deceased); P.B. Engo (Triple Jump and Long Jump)(deceased), former Attorney-General of the Cameroun.
Other accompanying officials were; Chief A.A. Ordia(Coach) deceased; Mr. J.A. Enyeazu (Assistant Coach) deceased; Mr. Arthur Cooper (Nigerian Attache, Melbourne) deceased; Mr. Paul Engo, who later became Minister, Attorney General and diplomat in the Republic of Cameroun.
The sole surviving member of the team is Alhaji K.B. Olowu,

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