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Politics › Re: Punchng.com Quotes Nairalanders In It Newspaper by resty4(m): 7:49am On Jul 04, 2015
NL was 1st quoted by bbc ,other medias n now punch. NL is a force 2 reckon w. Yr comments do not stop here but i tell you it hits d powers that b. Up nl!
Politics › Re: Ondo State Introduces Compulsory Access Card For Residents by resty4(m): 9:37pm On Jul 03, 2015
Watch
Nairaland General › Re: Former Benue Governor, Suswam To Be Jailed In London by resty4(m): 9:30pm On Jul 03, 2015
Wahala de men
Politics › Re: Opinion: Why Change Is For North Only. by resty4(m): 7:21pm On Jul 03, 2015
Sw where wuna de?
Phones › Re: Symbian Palavas Now Solve. by resty4(m): 7:19pm On Jul 03, 2015
I bought my c5 in february 2012 and its really wonderful 2 hv it.
I suggest you sh try sum1 that knows sumtin about fon it may hv technical issue.
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Emir Of Suicide Bombers Taken Out, ISIS by resty4(m): 4:56am On Jul 03, 2015
Islam breeds terrorism if u say na lie c facts everywhere!
Nairaland General › Studying 500 Millionaires, Notice One Characteristic They All Had In Common by resty4(op): 11:26am On Jul 02, 2015
(Mark Thompson/Getty Images) The most successful people know how to make decisions.
After studying over 500 millionaires, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and Charles Schwab, journalist and author Napoleon Hill found that they shared a single quality: decisiveness.
"Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly," Hill wrote in his 1937 classic, " Think and Grow Rich."
In addition to making decisions quickly and confidently, they also change decisions, if and when needed to, slowly, Hill noted. On the flip side, "People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often."
Decisiveness plays such an important role in accumulating wealth that mastery of procrastination — which Hill defined as the opposite of decisiveness — is the seventh of his 13 steps toward getting rich.
To become a better decision-maker, start by focusing on your listening skills, Hill explained:
Keep your eyes and ears wide open — and your mouth closed — if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decisions. Those who talk too much do little else. If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.
Your actions count more than your words. "Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it," Hill wrote.
If you do master this quality, it can reap incredible rewards, Hill observed: "Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely know what they want, and generally get it ... The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going."
Since Hill's time, others have pinpointed qualities and habits shared among people who make millions, such as rising early, exercising regularly, making the time to read, and associating with others who are successful.https://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/frontpage/finance/news/studying-500-millionaires-journalist-noticed-183000062.html?.b=%2Findex&.intl=US&.lang=en

Politics › Dogara Absent As Buhari Meets Gbajabiamila’s Group by resty4(op): 6:34am On Jul 02, 2015
The Speaker of the House of Representatives,Yakubu Dogara, was not present at the meeting conveyed last night by President Muhammadu Buhari over the simmering leadership crisis in the National Assembly. The Presidency had earlier yesterday confirmed that Buhari would meet with the two factions involved in the impasse.
But only Femi Gbajabiamila’s faction attended the meeting which took place at the First Lady Conference Room of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Gbajabiamila led some members of his faction into the meeting which started around 9.38pm. The meeting was still going on as of the time of filing this report (10.10pm).
The Special Adviser to the Speaker on Media and Public Affairs, Hassan Turaki, told our correspondent on telephone last night that his boss did not receive any invitation for the meetinghttp://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/top-stories/58913-dogara-absent-as-buhari-meets-gbajabiamila-s-group

Nairaland General › Man Suffers Burns To His Face After His Phone Explodes | Photos by resty4(op): 9:46pm On Jul 01, 2015
The rate at which phones and chargers are exploding in people’s faces is a cause for concern…
Bhavesh Thummer, a professional diamond polisher, was left with burns to his face and chest, after his mobile phone blew up in his face when he tried making a quick phone call. Mr Thummer’s left eye and ear were burnt in the incident, leaving him wearing a heavy bandage across the whole of his left eye.
The device exploded whilst Mr Thummer was visiting his friend’s timber market in Punagam, Surat
Wanting to make a quick telephone call, he dialled the number and put the phone to his ear.
Feeling the extreme temperature, he dropped the overheating device. The phone landed on to a desk before setting fire to a pile of loose papers and damaging the desk.
Health and safety experts are set to launch an inquiry into the incident.http://www.informationng.com/2015/07/man-suffers-burns-to-his-face-after-his-phone-explodes-photos.html

Politics › NASS: PDP Zones Minority Positions In The Senate by resty4(op): 7:50pm On Jul 01, 2015
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has zoned minority offices it expects its members in both the Senate and the House of Representatives to occupy.

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, stated this at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday.

Unlike the All Progressives Congress, he said his party would not pick individuals for the positions, but allow the officers to be appointed by their colleagues from their zones.

Metuh said the decision on the zoning was taken at the meeting of the members of the National Working Committee of the party held on Wednesday.

He said, “concerning the National Assembly and the PDP positions, the National Working Committee today met and announced that in consonance with the provision of the Standing Rules of the National Assembly, we expect our members – being minority members – to use their various zonal party caucuses to chose party principal officers to enable us provide effective opposition in the Senate.

“The party will not choose leaders for our senators. We will zone the position and expect the senators to fill in the positions.

“We have directed them to note that in accordance with the practice and convention of our party, the nomination process should take into consideration ranking, gender and religious sensitivities.

“Furthermore, it is the wish of the NWC that this exercise be concluded within one week and communicated accordingly.”

In the Senate, the party has zoned the office of the Minority Leader to South-South, the position of the Minority Whip has been moved to North-Central, while the North-East and South-West will provide the Deputy Minority Leader and Deputy Minority Whip, respectively.

In the House of Representatives, Metuh said the PDP caucus in the chamber had already zoned the position of the Minority Leader to the South-South without informing the party.
He said the party had accepted the decision.

Metuh listed other offices as zoned by the party to include Minority Whip, which has been zoned to the North-West, Deputy Minority Leader to come from the South-East while the North-East will fill the position of the Deputy Minority Whip.
http://www.punchng.com/news/nass-pdp-zones-minority-positions/
Politics › FACT CHECK: Nigeria’s Sexual Offences Bill Stipulates 18 Years, Not 11 Years, As by resty4(op): 9:42pm On Jun 30, 2015
Contrary to the belief that the recently passed Sexual Offences Bill encourages the defilement of minors, the legislation actually prescribes a life imprisonment term for anyone who has sex with someone under 18 years, PREMIUM TIMES can report.
The bill, which was among‎ the 46 legislations hurriedly passed by the last National Assembly, stipulates life imprisonment for any individual convicted of raping or having sexual intercourse with a minor, among others.
It sparked outrage after earlier reports that it had set 11 years as the age of consent for sexual intercourse.
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, criticised the bill saying it empowerered the “clique of paedophiles.”
‎”All you need do is ‘marry’ even a six year old under any local laws, and do whatever you want with her. Through marriage, she is already an ‘adult.’ Her ‘defiler’ is now fully protected by this law. She is not,” he said at the time.
Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, also described the bill as “obnoxious” and threatened to go to court if the bill is signed into law.
According to Mr. Falana, when the bill was unanimously passed for a second reading by the Senate on November 21, ‎2013, it sought a penalty of life imprisonment for the offence of defilement of children less than 18 years.
“It was that Committee (Committee on Judiciary and Legal Matters) that illegally removed the age of 18 years and replaced it with 11 years,” said Mr. Falana.
In her response to the public outrage,‎ Chris Anyanwu, who sponsored the bill, accused its critics of hate-mongering and taking advantage of the negative public feelings built up against the legislature.
“I suspect that some of those fighting against the bill are fixating on the short title,” said Mrs. Anyanwu, a former member of the Senate.
“Its long title shows what it is: a sexual offences prevention bill; a tough deterrence to crime.”
‎What the bill says
The bill is known as “An Act to Make Provision About Sexual Offences, Their Definition, Prevention And the Protection Of All Persons From Harm, Unlawful Sexual Acts, And For Purposes Connected Therewith”.
Section 7 of the bill, the controversial part which dealt with defilement of children, states that:
‎7. (1) A person who commits an act which causes penetration with a child is guilty of an offence called defilement.
(2) A person who commits an offence of defilement with a child aged eleven years or less shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life.
(3) A person who commits an offence of defilement with a child between the age of twelve and fifteen years is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for life.
‎(4) A person who commits an offence of defilement with a child between the age of sixteen and eighteen years is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for life.
Chioma Nwigwe, Director of The Eight Foundation, said the different sub-sections in Section 7 ought to have been merged into one sub-section.
“‎This bill actually recommends imprisonment for life as punishment for defilement of‎ any child below the age of 18,” said Ms. Nwigwe, whose organization is dedicated to highlighting the issue of sexual violence against women and providing victims with the necessary support.
“However, what is confusing is why they chose to put those penalties in different sections. The bill could have simply said: ‘A person who commits an offence of defilement on any child is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for life.’ The child has already been defined by the Constitution and by the Children and Young Persons Act.
‎”A lot of people have read just one subsection, which is that subsection‎ that says ‘A person who commits an offence of defilement with a child aged eleven years or less shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life’ and interpreted it to mean that 11 years is now the new age of consent, but that is not true. The same penalty is imposed on defilement of any child below the age of 18.‎”
Ms. Nwigwe called for an amendment of some sections of the bill, including Section (7)(5) which states that:
(5) It is a defence to a charge under the section (if)-
(a) It is proved that such child deceived the accused person into believing that he or she was over the age of eighteen years at the time of the alleged commission of the offence; and
(b) the accused person reasonably believed that the child was over the age of eighteen years.
‎”This is a child, you can’t expect‎ them to be responsible, that is why they are children,” she said.
“That is why the law is expected to go out of its way to protect them. So when you impose responsibility on this child, you’ve taken away the protection the law offers them. The responsibility should be on the adult to make sure the child is over the age of 18, in which case they will no longer be children.
“So what this law does is it takes away the coverage this law had given to the child and impose responsibility on the child. And that is what we should be fighting. These defences need to be taken out.”http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/185851-fact-check-nigerias-sexual-offences-bill-stipulates-18-years-not-11-years-as-age-of-consent.html
Politics › Re: Amina Zakari Acting INEC Chairman (photo) by resty4(m): 8:28pm On Jun 30, 2015
He b like say ds woman go hard pass jega o,just look her eyes grin
Politics › Re: Only Mr President’s Letter, Not Party’s Can Be Read In NASS – Na’allah by resty4(m): 8:25pm On Jun 30, 2015
henrysam:
APC is a party of the mumu by the mumu and for the mumu
grin
Politics › Re: A Must Read: PDP Careful Evaluates The First 30 Days Of Buhari's Administration by resty4(m): 11:04am On Jun 29, 2015
Truely kastina dullard is confused,his party is in disarray engulf in in-house braw.
PDP keep checkmatg d dullard n his party thru intelligent n constructv crtisms.
Politics › Re: APC State Chairmen Meet Over N’assembly Crisis by resty4(m): 8:56pm On Jun 26, 2015
D chips r down
Christianity Etc › Re: A Guide To Breaking Bad Habits By Lildreezy by resty4(m): 8:53pm On Jun 26, 2015
Nice post
Politics › Re: Why ISIS And Boko Haram Are Killing Moslems by resty4(m): 8:29pm On Jun 26, 2015
Isis,bh n other islamic jahadists r only doing SUNNA ie followg d deeds n actn of moh'd.
Islam foundatn was bloody. Moh'd killed his kinsmen at badr battle, killed poetess n jews. Took dya wealth enslave dya children married off d girls n even married women 2 his men as war booty 'dat wh yr right has taken'.
Infact these terrorist orgs r d real sunnis followg moh'd step.
Nairaland General › Re: Photos: Isis Publicly Flog Two Men For Privately Breaking Ramadan Fast by resty4(m): 8:12pm On Jun 26, 2015
Islam religion of pix. Everything is compulsn frm child marriage 2 sallah.
Moh'd's gift 2 d world is indeed . . .
Education › Re: 16 Medieval Torture That Will Make You Sick [graphic Photo]-viewers Discretion by resty4(m): 3:15pm On Jun 26, 2015
My God man is monster
Politics › Re: Buhari Holds First Jumat Prayer Inside Aso Rock Today (photo) by resty4(m): 3:12pm On Jun 26, 2015
Religion of pis terrorising global serenity, traquility n civility even in d so called 'holy' month.
Foreign Affairs › Re: [sad] Kuwait Shi’ite City Mosque Bombed After Friday Prayers by resty4(m): 3:03pm On Jun 26, 2015
Muslims killing people since d birth of pis relign.
Crime › Re: SO SAD!!DELSU Student Commits Suicide After Being Jilted By Lover Of 7 Years by resty4(m): 6:49am On Jun 26, 2015
straight 2 hell no mercy.
Christianity Etc › Re: Muslims In The House...your View On Isis by resty4(m): 6:30am On Jun 26, 2015
Isis follows suna, de r true muslims
Politics › Re: Senate Crisis: Saraki Blocks Reading Of Apc’s Letter by resty4(m): 9:49pm On Jun 24, 2015
Good move saraki. Show Apc peppe afterall de aren't got 2/3 in d house.
Politics › Re: 43 Year Old Farmer With Primary Certificate May Become President In Tanzania by resty4(m): 9:41pm On Jun 24, 2015
Shey no minimum cert requirem eh? But then dura dullard show yr sec sch cert o b4 .. .
Crime › Re: How Soldiers Murdered Police Informant In Delta State (Graphic Photo) by resty4(m): 9:32pm On Jun 24, 2015
D soldiers involved sh b investigated n justice meted as fit.
Agriculture › Re: Seriously I Need Buyer Of Original Honey And Fresh Orange In Large Quantities by resty4(m): 9:24pm On Jun 24, 2015
Genuine honey is rich indeed in nutrients, wish u prosperious biz.
Politics › Re: I've Got It: Caption PMB And El-rufai Discussing Allocation From FAAC! by resty4(m): 7:36pm On Jun 24, 2015
2 islambad jahedists on parole. B un d watch!
Politics › Re: Top 10 Most Well Trained Special Military Forces On Earth by resty4(m): 7:26pm On Jun 24, 2015
Woa, where 9ja special force de? grin
Crime › Re: Gunmen Kill Two Policemen And Kidnap Two Expatriates In Bayelsa State by resty4(m): 7:16pm On Jun 24, 2015
N delta bad guyz don start like joke like joke.
Politics › Frenchwoman’s Journey To IS In Syria by resty4(op): 7:01pm On Jun 24, 2015
She wanted to move to a land where “the laws of Allah apply” but found herself trapped in a world of arbitrary beatings and violence where women are treated as sexual objects.
Nadia (not her real name), a 21-year-old French woman, was recruited earlier this spring by Islamic State (IS) jihadists on Internet chatrooms and then travelled to the militants’ self-declared capital of Raqa, in Syria.
But she quickly grew disenchanted, finding the highly-radicalised militants “fantasise more about the Kalashnikov than the Koran”.
During a tumultuous three months with IS in Raqa, she married and then separated from a jihadist, was twice thrown in jail and then managed to cross into Turkey where she was detained by police.
Agence France-Presse correspondents were given unprecedented access last week to the woman, who cannot be named for security reasons, in the city of Gaziantep where she was detained pending deportation.
Turkey is keen to make an example of such detentions to reject Western accusations it is not doing enough to halt the flow of jihadists across its borders.
Nadia met AFP voluntarily and said she wanted to speak out to deter other women in her position from joining IS.
Wearing a long skirt and a headscarf that still exposed the locks of her brown hair, she spoke confidently and cogently, even as questions remain about parts of her testimony.
“I am talking to open the eyes of the young girls who say ‘the West is against us and Daesh is the caliphate’,” she told AFP, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
“But it’s not a caliphate, it’s a sect,” she said.
Nadia was deported to France on Tuesday and immediately arrested on arrival.
– ‘You go to Raqa’ –
Closeted in her bedroom, staring at a computer screen every day, Nadia said she slowly drifted apart from her parents and dropped out of university.
She spent days communicating with IS recruiters who told her she was living in a country hostile to Islam and would end up in hell.
“You quickly get scared (…) and then you withdraw into yourself,” she said. “Finally, you say ‘yes’ and you decide to go to a land where the laws of Allah hold sway.”
She says recruiters on the Internet first sent her a false cheque for 1,800 euros ($2,000) that she could cash before it bounced.
Instructed by her handlers not to fly from France and not to wear Islamic dress, she headed to Geneva on March 4 and then flew to Istanbul.
She was met by two men who paid the bus fare for the long journey to the Turkish province of Sanliurfa on the Syrian border. Here she was told to wear the niqab, or face-covering veil, and escorted by two other men.
“We went into the illegal border areas… we walked for 20 minutes, we climbed through the barbed wire, then they found a car for us,” she said.
She was then driven to the Syrian town of Tal Abyad — at the time controlled by IS but now captured by Kurds — just over the border.
– ‘They buy us’-
She arrived in Raqa on March 7 where she was locked up in a house with several other women.
“They told me ‘if you want to leave the house, you must get married otherwise you stay here for life’,” she said, speaking in a calm voice.
“You are not allowed to call your parents, you have no access to the Internet, everything is forbidden.”
She said she finally consented after two weeks to marrying her recruiter, whose mother tongue was French.
But she annulled the “marriage” after a day and was allowed to go and live with two other French women.
But she said her roommates then found a business card linking her to French intelligence, which had interviewed her in the past over a cousin’s links with jihadists.
“They called the (IS) police which came for me and put me in prison.”
After enduring solitary confinement and beatings in an underground cell operated by IS, she was released and driven by a man to the Turkish border.
“I was told ‘you can go back to France but you keep your mouth shut and you forget everything’,” she said.
Quite how this came about remains unclear — very few people have returned to Europe after cooperating with IS and she did not explain why the jihadists would have actively helped her leave.
After crossing into Turkey, she was detained on June 1 by police acting on a tip from French authorities.
French security sources have confirmed that Nadia did indeed travel to Syria, joined IS, married a jihadist and then returned to Turkey.
How she managed to leave IS-controlled territory and return north is a mystery.
– ‘Merchandise for men’ –
She said by the time she was freed by the jihadists she had grown disillusioned with the IS doctrine and tactics.
“It was not Islam… It was not the Koran, it was just arms, arms and people in battle dress in a kind of fantasy of war,” she said.
“They tell us it’s just to satisfy God but they buy us through religion.”
Portraying the lives of IS militants, she said: “They practice Islam very little. There is very little reading of the Koran, they live just with war chants.”
“The majority are converts to Islam, they barely know the religion and they had to quickly get to know Syria.”
And women cooperating with IS only serve as outlets for the fighters’ sexual desires.
“We are merchandise for the men, they have a list: ‘I want a brunette, a blonde, I want this kind of woman of that age’.”
She dreams about a new life in France — better relations with her parents and cutting herself off from the Internet.
“I want to live properly like all the young girls of my age in France. It’s strange to be able to go out and see the sun and feel the air.”http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/frenchwomans-journey-to-is-in-syria/
Politics › Re: Jonathan Needs To Write A Book by resty4(m): 7:14am On Jun 24, 2015
I can't wait 2 read a bk written by d hero of ng democracy.
Sir Goodluck pls author book(s).

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