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Is there no one here to offer this lady a job? You can tell she is very imaginative and will be an asset to a prospective employer! Somebody do something please!!

The commonest causes of memory lapse, especially in a young person are psychological rather than organic i.e structural brain lesion. Less commonly in an otherwise fit and well person will be endocrine/hormonal and then nutritional (usually micronutrient deficiency e.g selenium, manganese, magnesium,chromium and the like). Oh and if a female we shouldn't forget anaemia. See a doctor, get a physical and baseline bloods and take it from there. You can PM me for further advice if you so wish. All the very best!

dem no dey hear word, they think life's a joke.

@alexius15, I wont carpet blanket a product because it did not suit you. I think the op can always try it to see if it works for him. Ive used the product for about 10 years and happy with it.

New e-Passport: See the 44 countries you can now visit without Visa
BY DERIN AKINNUOYE ON AUGUST 3, 2014 TICKER

President Jonathan recently launched the new 64-page e-passport.

According to presidential spokesperson, Reuben Abati, “The new 64-pg e-passport helps frequent travelers, it’s gender friendly, forestalls identity theft, cheaper for the aged and low income earners, conforms with international best practices.”

“Cost of new e-passport for below 18yrs and 60 years and above is N8,750; change of name as a result of marriage or divorce is also N8,750.

“The existing e-passport is 32pp; new one is 64pp but it is strictly for frequent travelers. Please note, it does not invalidate the former Nigerian Passport.


See the countries you can visit visa free with your passport below:


1. Bangladesh (Visa on arrival)
2. Barbados ( Visa free for 6 months)
3. Benin Republic ( Visa free)
4. Burkina Faso ( Visa free)
5. Burundi ( Visa on arrival for 30days)
6. Cameroon ( Visa free)
7. Cape Verde ( Visa on arrival)
8. Chad ( Visa free)
9. Comoros Island ( Visa on arrival)
10. Cote d’ivoire ( Visa free )
11. Djibouti ( Visa on arrival )
12. Dominican ( Visa free for 21 days )
13. Fiji Island ( Visa free for 4 months)
14. Gambia ( Visa free for 90days )
15. Georgia ( Visa on arrival )
16. Ghana ( Visa free )
17. Guinea ( Visa free )
18. Guinea Bissau ( Visa free for 90 days )
19. Haiti ( Visa free for 90 days )
20. Iran ( Visa on arrival )
21. Kenya ( Visa on arrival for 90 days )
22. Liberia ( Visa free )
23. Madagascar ( Visa on arrival for 90 days )
24. Maldives ( Visa on arrival for 30 days )
25. Mali ( Visa free )
26. Mauritania ( Visa on arrival )
27. Mauritius ( Visa free for 90days )
28. Micronesia ( Visa free for 30 days )
29. Mozambique ( Visa on arrival for 30 days )
30. Nauru ( Visa on arrival )
31. Niger republic ( Visa free )
32. Palau ( Visa on arrival for 30 days )
33. Samoa ( Visa on arrival for 60 days )
34. Senegal ( Visa free )
35. Seychelles (Visa on arrival for 30 days )
36. Sierra Leone ( Visa free )
37. Somalia ( Visa on arrival )
38. Sri Lanka ( Electronic travel authorization )
39.Tanzania ( Visa on arrival )
40. Timor-Leste ( Visa on arrival for 30 days )
41. Togo ( Visa free )
42. Tuvalu ( Visa on arrival for 30 days )
43. Uganda ( Visa on arrival )
44. Vanuatu ( Visa free for 30 days )

http://www.theheraldng.com/new-e-passport-see-44-countries-can-now-visit-without-visa-5/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Yes, phenomenal performance!!!

Go to Peckham, there will be lots to choose from!

Africa should heed Botswana’s simple success recipe

July 24 2014 at 08:00am
By Keith Bryer

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ACADEMICS and left-wing intellectuals seem puzzled by Botswana’s economic success. After all, the rest of the 54 African states are sliding downwards, or trying desperately to get out of the mire that they have sunk into since independence.

Why Botswana’s achievement should require such furrowing brows seems racist to some people (how could Africans actually run a growing economy with independent institutions like a judiciary and the like?). Common sense should make it obvious why the country has succeeded.

Nevertheless, not only is there is a veritable glut of academic research on the subject, search Google for “Why is Botswana such a success” and you get 23 million hits. That is how many people have asked the same question. Common sense is, alas, not that common.

Zambian intellectuals put it down to strong and accountable public institutions, checks and balances on politicians, and a strong homogenous population. Zambia, by contrast, has 174 different tribes but prefers not to mention this and in the Kenneth Kaunda years it did not have the other two factors either.

Another answer is that Botswana holds private property rights sacred. It therefore follows that no socialistic meddling in the economy is a requirement for success. Jeremy Cronin, please note.

As a British protectorate, the country was the most poverty-stricken territory ever painted pink on the imperial map. The colonialists did nothing by way of economic development apart from driving a railway line up its eastern edge.

On independence, in September 1966, Botswana had to start from scratch. It inherited nothing so colonialism could never provide a handy excuse for anything that went wrong.

We, on the other hand can, and do, blame apartheid for out failures.

Botswana’s leadership wisely listened to economists that were not closet socialists. They took advice from World Bank types rather than academics or, indeed, clerical politicians and aid agencies. They were happy to accept aid, but only on their terms. Unlike Tanzania and Zambia, Botswana was determined not to become a testing ground for economic theories. Kaunda and Julius Nyerere by contrast fell in love with them.

The result was that Botswana got richer slowly, the old way. Zambia and Tanzania had to reach rock bottom before they realised their mistake.

This slow, purposeful approach truly did achieve a better life for all Botswana’s citizens. They rose steadily out of poverty without riots, strikes, revolutions, and coups, and they now have a standard of living on a par with Chile and Argentina.

It has been a long haul. On independence, Botswana had 12km of tarred roads; in 2007, it had 7 000km.

Every index of economic progress tells the same tale. Sparsely populated, landlocked, Botswana has seen infant mortality drop, its people grow healthier, better educated, living longer, and the number of poor falling. Unemployment remains high at 17 percent, but this is a figure South Africa would go on its knees to achieve.

Is everyone equal, do they earn the same amount, live in identical homes, have the same number of cattle, enjoy the same things including talent as everyone else? Of course not. But everyone is better off, safe, secure and got there following an old recipe.

The Batswana did not seek a socialist nirvana. They had no Communist Party to dangle an impossible, unworkable vision in front of them.

Pragmatism was key. It had to be. There is a story that on the eve of independence, Sir Seretse Khama drew up a list of the country’s graduates. He ranked them according to the quality of their degrees. The upper half was told they’d go into the civil service while the bottom half were told they would have to go into the private sector.

If true, subsequent history demonstrates the genius of the decision. By selecting the brightest and best for the civil service, an elite core was created who would jealously guard standards if only to preserve their reputations. To become a civil servant in Botswana is an honour, a recognition of intellectual achievement and incorruptibility.

Equally, to be in the private sector was to be compelled to succeed on its own terms and in so doing create employment. In other words, entrepreneurial vigour was praised in Botswana not scorned for being involved in profit-making.

Contrast this with many African countries that saw their civil services packed with party loyalists. And new rulers who saw the private sector as a piggy bank.

Of course, the discovery of diamonds at Orapa was a massive boon to the economy. However, contrast the way Botswana handled the bonanza with how Zimbabwe dealt with a similarly significant discovery.

Botswana called in the experts and reaped long-term benefits for the Treasury.

Zimbabwe went at it with picks and shovels to begin with but soon the Zanu-PF elite took over. Blood was shed.

Now the diamond field is sealed, exploited ruthlessly, not for the benefit of the Treasury and, therefore, potentially for the general population, but for the wallets of Robert Mugabe and his cronies.

Botswana chose the long term. Zimbabwe emulated those fictitious London solicitors, Sue, Grabbitt & Runne.

What is the moral of this story? What lessons should we learn from Botswana? It is not too late to heed them.

Common sense is the main lesson, but since such thinking is rare, the lessons may need to be spelled out.

So, if you want to develop an economy and make a dent in poverty, beware of foreigners wanting to test their theories on your economy.

Be especially aware of well-meaning academics and politicians who peddle their ideas as solutions to everything.

Accept foreign aid only if you have to and accept it only on your terms. Take the long view.

Finally, never meddle with the right to own property, the bill of rights, the constitution, the judiciary or a free press.

Do any of these things and the slide to the bottom will begin.

Keith Bryer is a retired communications consultant

The WHO estimates that alcohol results in 2.5m deaths a year, more than AIDS or tuberculosis. In Russia and its former satellite states one in five male deaths is caused by drink. List of countries by alcohol consumption :
1- Moldova
2- Czech Republic
3- Hungary
4- Russia
5- Ukraine
6- Estonia
7- Andorra
8- Romania
9- Slovenia
10- Belarus
11- Croatia
12- Lithuania
13- South Korea
14- Portugal
15- Ireland
16- France
17- United Kingdom
18- Denmark
19- Slovakia
20- Poland
21- Austria
22- Luxembourg
23- Germany
24- Finland
25- Latvia
26- Bulgaria
27- Nigeria
28- Uganda
29- Saint Lucia
30- Spain
31- Armenia
32- Serbia
31- Switzerland
32- Kazakhstan
33- Belgium
34- Greece
35- Italy
36- Azerbaijan
37- Seychelles
38- Grenada
39- Sweden
40- Palau
41- Netherlands
42- Australia
43- Argentina
44- Niue
45- Rwanda
46- Canada
47- Sierra Leone
48- Bosnia and Herzegovina
49- New Zealand
50- Namibia

http://medxforum.com/vb/showthread.php?1015-The-Most-Alcohol-Consuming-Countries-in-The-World

The commonwealth games opening ceremony is on live now.

A 15-year old girl took the term “die hard fan” a little too literally. The teenager, Pragya Thapa, from East Nepal, committed suicide by hanging herself after Brazil’s epic and humiliating loss to Germany in the 2014 FIFA World Cup semifinal Tuesday. According to the Nepal Police, Thapa, hanged herself Wednesday morning after some of her friends teased her that her team had suffered a humiliating loss to Germany. The disheartened Pragya, a 10th hung herself when her mother and sister also joined her friends and took Germany’s side, police said. “She was anxious to see Brazil in the final, but it went down to Germany. Some of her friends started teasing her for supporting Brazil. Later in the morning, she took an extreme measure by hanging herself in her own room,” Sharad Thapa, a Nepal Police inspector, said after preliminary investigation. Pragya, who lived in a remote village around 250 miles from Nepal’s capital city Kathmandu, was found by her mother hanging from the ceiling in the room.

Read more at RADAR: http://www.radar.ng/oddity/teenage-girl-commits-suicide-over-brazils-tragic-loss-

Video shows the moment two passenger jets nearly collide at Barcelona airport

http://natpo.st/1tfP2HD

TSA will require devices to be charged on international, U.S.-bound flights
NEWS
By Chuong H Nguyen | Jul 06 2014 | 3:02 pm | 6 COMMENTS
TSA will require devices to be charged on international, U.S.-bound flights


As part of new security protocol at foreign airports, the United States Transportation Security Administration will require cell phones and select electronic devices to be fully charged with the ability to be powered on when going through security screening. The TSA says that devices that won't power on will not be allowed on flights headed to the U.S.

The increased security measure arises amidst concerns that al Quada may blow up a jetliner and Agency officials fear that phones, tablets, and laptops may be used as bombs. TSA will be asking travelers to power on their electronic devices at security checkpoints to verify that they are safe on board a flight.

The increased screening will be for U.S.-bound flights originating from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. So if you're headed to the U.S., be sure that your phones and electronics are fully charged before headed to the airport.

In addition to electronics-related safety concerns at airports and on planes, TSA will also be closely checking the shoes of travelers.

What do you think of the new security measures? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: NBC News

Food for thought!

@op, it's great you guys are so in love, BUT, you both also owe at least the same amount of love to your unborn children if you marry. To deliberately bring SS children into the world in 2014 or beyond, with all the knowledge and information available not only will be callous, I think its outrightly cruel. Cruel to you and your partner too. If you do go ahead, then prepare to employ any of the methods of ante/prenatal diagnosis available. Please do not discard the voice of wisdom. I've seen too many who did to their utmost peril and regret. I've see them when they were in love, and 12 years later after 2 or 3 kids with SS. This is a candid advice from a senior doctor who has worked in 3 continents of the world and who has sicklers in his family. PM me if you wish to.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/magazine/who-made-that-nigerian-scam.html?smid=tw-nytimes
By DANIEL ENGBER

January 3, 2014

The Nigerian scam may seem like a scourge of the Internet age, but it actually predates email. Before we started getting all-caps proposals in our inboxes, con men in West Africa plied their trade by fax and paper letter. Some of the first scams to make their way to Western Europe arrived by telex in 1989 and 1990, when businessmen in Britain started hearing that a wayward tanker of Nigerian crude could have its cargo claimed for bargain prices — in exchange, of course, for some cash upfront. Before then, Nigerian fraudsters aimed their grifts at locals. One scheme was the “wash-wash,” a literal money-laundering in which the mark is shown a valise of supposed bills blackened with Vaseline and iodine and promised a cut if he pays for an expensive cleaning agent.Advance-fee or 419 scams, known by the section of the Nigerian criminal code that outlaws fraud, took on a global character when oil prices crashed along with the national economy. A newly installed military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida, cut salaries for civil servants and the military and ended price supports for the local currency. Within three years, the country’s inflation rate was greater than 38 percent. The English-speaking, entrepreneurial class found itself with little buying power and in need of foreign money. “Some of these guys came out and started perpetrating fraud,” says Andrew Apter, an Africa historian at U.C.L.A. “They used the language and insignias and letterhead of financial offices to lure people in.”Apter has traced this sort of misuse of official iconography as far back as a century. When Nigeria was established as a colony under British rule in 1914, its first governor cracked down on scammers in fake uniforms who claimed to be collecting taxes on behalf of the empire. The advance-fee scam itself — whereby payments are extracted from a sucker who hopes to gain an enormous treasure — seems to have originated elsewhere. According to Robert Whitaker, a historian at the University of Texas, an earlier version of the con, known as the Spanish Swindle or the Spanish Prisoner trick, plagued Britain throughout the 19th century.These days, an address in Lagos would seem to be a red flag for prospective dupes, but it may be helpful for some scammers. In 2012, a researcher with Microsoft named Cormac Herley tried to model the con artist’s behavior and concluded that a clear tip-off — an email address in Nigeria, for example — could, by scaring off the savvier or more suspicious sorts, enable them to focus on the most gullible victims.SCAMMING THE SCAMMERSIn 2003, Mike Berry was a 41-year-old computer engineer in Manchester, England, when he started replying to Nigerian scammers over email for fun. His website,419eater.com, provides a forum for likeminded “scam-baiters” and an archive of their most outrageous achievements.After 10 years, are you still an active scam-baiter? I dabbled about five or six months ago — I like to keep my hand in. But in my heyday, it wasn’t unusual for me to have 15 or 30 scammers on the line at the same time. I’ve dealt with about 4,000 or 5,000 scammers since I started.It sounds like a full-time job. It’s not really that tricky, if you’re good at accounting for where everything’s going. You’ll find a lot of scammers will twig straightaway and drop you like a hot cake. . . . You may only get 10 percent who will stick with you for a decent period of time.So that’s your success rate — 10 percent? That’s for what we could call a decent success, either a long period of time keeping the guy busy, or what we would call a trophy. You know, like a funny picture, carvings, things like that.It sounds as if you’re even better at this than they are. I’d be able to do a really good job, I think. I haven’t for one second contemplated doing that, of course. . . . I do remember I sent a scammer a fake passport, and it was such a good fake that at the end of the scam-bait, when he realized what had happened, he sent me an email and basically admitted to everything he was trying. He said that he was quite a high-up scammer, and he offered me a deal. He would pay me $12,000 a month for 10 passports to be created. You’ve got to think of what this guy must have been earning to offer me that kind of money!

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Very useful info on the above topic for the serious minded. Just a few to highlight for now. The key is to watch. There is a lot happening that mainstream media are not talking about!

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20131223/news/news8.html

The number '14' symbolises 'double portion, deliverance, double completion, recreate, reproduce, employee, the labour force, and fear of God.'

In 2014 God will visit many lineages and break curses from both people and nations, all the way back to 14 generations as exemplified in Matthew 1: 1-17. (Read also I Kings 8: 65). It will also be the year of lunar and cosmic problems, heat waves, and earthquakes in diverse places. It will also be a year of forgiveness, a year for shepherds and leaders, and a year of debt release.

Watch the months January to June 2014. Men's hearts will be failing them for fear, according to the signs of the times and the hardships that will hit the earth; and there will be global paradigm shifts for heads of governments!

We will have lunar issues, problems with the ozone layer. There will be a great change within the atmosphere. Many vegetables will be contaminated and open the doors for disease. Doctors must begin to store vaccines.

God is calling forth the Jeremiah and Daniel prophets to rise up. Speak my Word to kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers, for I am about to cause a paradigm shift to take place within each head of governments.

God is going to bring down polluted entertainment. There are great deceptions within the entertainment industry, as well as great idolatry. They are hindering the blessing and protection of God over the nation. Their lifestyle has come up before God.

INTERNATIONAL

29 There will be confusion in the medical field and it will be caused by the shortage of drugs. Many are already aware of the problems but do not want to disclose it. Many will die because of that.

30There will be a paradigm shift in the United States of America (USA) in the fields of science and technology, and it will be hard to determine how it started. Furthermore, pray for the USA; more political problems are coming.

31 Great lamentations in 2014, and the name of the Lord will be exalted in all of this.

32 A massive search for gold and oil is taking place in places where they are yet to be discovered. Many are infiltrating other countries to find these coveted treasures. Secret murders will be taking place. Many will go missing and never be found. Now is the time to pray as never before. Scientists, environmentalists, marine biologists and geologists will be among those who will be missing.

33 Pray for the continent of Africa, especially Rwanda, Japan, India, China, Haiti, Italy, Egypt, and the state of Michigan. Furthermore, 20 states in the USA will be hard hit. God is calling His holy men and women to rise to their responsibility and warn the nation of pending judgement. The Holy Spirit is warning against greed!

34 Great waters of the earth will rise to alarming heights destroying lands, people, livestock, vegetables fruits and oils. Many communication devices around the world will be dismantled. There will be earthquakes in places where there are no fault lines!

35 The rich lifestyle of many will decrease. The leaders of the nation have taken on to themselves the wealth and resources that should be distributed to the less fortunate, the sick and the suffering, and the children. They have robbed and plundered the people. God says, 'I shall visit them!'

36 Those who profess to be serving God but indulge in lifestyles of sinfulness and secretly drawing others to their wicked ways will reap their reward. God is not mocked! Whatsoever man sows that shall he reap. Get your house in order.

Disclaimer: God reserves the right to hold His hand back from any form of judgement pending subject to the repentance of nations and individuals. (Jonah 3: 5-10; Exodus 32: 14; Jeremiah 18: 7-11; Amos 7: 3-6; II Kings 20: 1-11) Please remember, God does whatever He pleases (Psalm 135: 6). He changes times and seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings (Daniel 1: 20-23). Additionally, other prophecies revealed for 2014 are classified.

Just announced now by SA president

I worked with a senior colleague- lesbian, who had a son by asking an old classmate from med school for 'it' in a 5ml syringe. She then administered it on herself- if you know what I mean.

http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2013/11/27/butt-dial-call-foils-suspected-arkansas-murder-plot
A would-be Arkansas murder plot came undone when one of the suspected co-conspirators sat on his phone and “butt-dialed” the targeted victim, who heard details of the planned hit and alerted police, police said on Wednesday.

James Macom, 33, last week overheard his former employer Larry Barnett, 68, telling a suspected hit man to make the killing look like an accident, the Jonesboro Police Department said.

Macom contacted police and filed a report at a station. He returned with police to his home, where an intruder had apparently broken in and started a gas leak, police said.

Barnett apparently was looking up Macom’s contact information on his phone to give to the hit man and accidentally dialed the number from his pocket, police said.

Barnett was arrested last week for conspiracy to commit murder, police said. His lawyer was not immediately available for comment.

Jonesboro, where the incident occurred, is 120 miles (200 km) northeast of Little Rock.

I always wonder that women outlive their husbands!

Very interesting comments indeed. Maybe Nigerians who consider themselves "anti-corrupt" should band together into a true mass movement to effect change; bearing in mind this change must hidden at many levels: family, school, churches, mosques, workplace, government offices, police, politicians etc etc.

Once in a while, in the midst of the dreary dark air, there comes a glimmer of light. I thought this piece qualifies as one. Although largely rhetorical, it still brought smiles to my face. Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151732220777473

Sad when anyone dies, more so a young person, even more so a loved one. God will grant the fortitude to bear this great loss.
A song of comfort by Vickie Winans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN1distlNwM

Very sad but drives home the point everyone should learn how to swim. Its not hard to do. It should be taught in school or else parents should make sure their kids learn to. The good thing is, you never forget how to, like riding a bike. Also our young folks need to be safety conscious. I can only pray God comforts their family and friends.

Well, I'm a christian and a surgeon and I do carry out plastic procedures (facial plastics)- so, where does that leave me? It is no more sin than all the other paraphernalia of cosmesis ladies use IMHO! I find the comments both amusing and amazing though.

@op- do not live in a house whose rent you cannot pay! Cut your coat to suit your cloth!!

very funny!

In Stuttgart, Germany, is taking place the judgement of a man who was hired to get his neighbour’s wife pregnant.

Apparently, Demetrius Soupolos,, 29, and his wife Traute (former beauty queen), wanted a child for a long time, but Demetrius was told by a doctor that he was sterile.

To overcome this problem, Soupolos, decided to hire his neighbour, Frank Maus, 34, to impregnate his wife. Since Maus was already married and the father of two children, the plan seemed promising.

Soupolos paid Maus $2.500 for the job and for three evenings a week for the next six months Maus tried desperately, a total of 72 different times, to get the job done and make Traute pregnant.

When his own wife started to complain he explained, “I don’t like this any more than you, I’m simply doing it for the money. Try and understand.”
When Traute failed to get pregnant after six months, however, Soupolos was not understanding and insisted that Maus have a medical examination, which he did.

The doctor who did the examination concluded that Maus was also sterile, shocking everyone except his wife who was forced to confess that Maus was not the real father of their two children.

Now Soupolos is suing Maus for breach of contract in an effort to get his money back, but Maus refuses to give it up because he said he did not guarantee conception, but only that he would give it an honest effort (or 72)

Hello house. I wonder if anyone has experience living in Botswana. How friendly? Cost of living? Infrastructure such as health care, transportation, education. Will a Nigerian lawyer be able to practice there? What other general advice for a Nigerian especially considering we are not the best fans of our African brothers and sisters.
Mature comments welcome please.