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Nigerians dey vex ooo... ...patiently waiting for barcanister thread and passingshot counter thread, I know its gonna be more interesting than El classico!

The guy is very direct with his speech....he seems to oppose almost every deal of the current government with good reason though....I'm yet to really follow bush, heard the guy is leading in poll rating.

Speechless.

Chen Xinyin, 48, looks after paralysed mother despite his disability.
Since losing his arms aged seven, he has learnt to cope with just his feet.
He also runs a smallholding in Chongqing, south west China.
As well as cook, he is able to farm, peel corn and even weave baskets 

A 48-year-old man has overcome his disability to take care of his ageing mother on his own.

Chen Xinyin from Chongqing, south west China, lost his arms after getting a massive electric shock aged seven, reported People's Daily Online.

Since then, he's learnt to cook, farm and now even looks after his bed-ridden mother.

The disabled man's amazing strength of character has been captured in a series of moving photographs that's recently emerged.


Chen Xinyin (left) has been feeding his mother (right) since she became ill especially after becoming paralysed.

When he was 20, his father died. As his older siblings had already left home, his mother became the only person who kept the poverty-stricken family going.

Since 2014, the disabled man has had to take care of her full-time while running his smallholding.

Chen Xinyin's 91-year-old mother has been getting weaker and weaker each year.

About a month ago, she became paralysed and can no longer move her arms.

Without the use of his hands, he has to do everything using other parts of his body, including spoon-feeding his mother using his teeth to hold on to the instrument.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3208646/The-picture-moved-China-Devoted-son-lost-arms-electric-shock-spoon-feeds-sick-mother-using-TEETH.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Cc: lalasticlala ishilove : lesson learnt frm FP viewers!

The efforts of the senate to investigate Ibrahim Lamorde, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for allegedly diverting N1 trillion recovered from corrupt politicians, are down to EFCC’s recent probe of Toyin Saraki, wife of the senate president, an official of the commission has said.

After George Uboh petitioned the senate accusing the EFCC of diverting the loot recovered from‎ Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, former governor of Bayelsa state and Taf‎a Balogun, former inspector-general of police, the senate committee on ethics, privileges and public petitions announced that it will begin a probe of the matter on Wednesday.

It invited Uboh to appear before it by 10am on Wednesday.‎

Lamorde was said to have committed the alleged offence while he was director of operations of the EFCC between 2003 and 2007, and as acting chairman of the commission between June 2007 and May 2008‎.

However, an EFCC official told TheCable on Monday that the senate was “trying to scandalise” the commission because of its investigation of Toyin Saraki, wife of Bukola Saraki, senate president. He also said Lamorde had not received an official invitation from the senate.

“There is nothing like summon or invitation to the commission from the senate,” he said.

“What is supposedly a petition to the senate is something engineered by the leadership of the senate because we are investigating the wife of the senate president.

“Everything the senate is doing is to scandalise the commission because we are investigating the wife of the senate president.”

The EFCC is investigating Mrs Saraki over an offence of money laundering she allegedly committed while her husband was the governor of Kwara state.

In July, when she was invited for questioning, a hive of lawmakers led by Dino Melaye accompanied her to the headquarters of the EFCC in Abuja, in what was described as an attempt to stampede the commission.

She promised to cooperate with the commission on whatever information it needed, the ‘Like Mind’ senators who are loyalists of the senate president, questioned the entire process, saying it was part of a larger plan to pull down Saraki, who became president of the upper chamber against the wish of his party.

https://www.thecable.ng/senate-bent-embarrassing-lamorde-probing-sarakis-wife


Cc: lalasticlala

BishopMagic:
This how people slowly lose their freedom by putting too much power and hope on a mortal man.

George Washington was asked after emerging from the first US legislative assembly on what type of govt they had resolved to use in the newly independent state, he simply replied; " a republic. That is if you can keep it so!"

It was the silly plebs of ancient Rome that demanded that Ceaser be made an emperor. His assassination at the hands of senators hoping to thwart his ascension to be emperor of Rome marked the death of democracy in Rome.

My respect, @ d bolded.....

PMB should head the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary........seems he's the only one that can't fail the integrity test in Nigeria.

likila:
A Comptroller General is higher than a permanent secretary.
How can a superior officer be sacked for ignoring interference from a junior officer?

Honestly, I'm confuse at the bolded....was abt asking who's higher and if the letter headed wasn't suppose to read Presidency or Head of Service!!! I'm honestly ignorant on this and will appreciate more clarification!

Seems none is perfect afteral......

News reaching Sahara Reporter has it that the newly appointed head of FIRS, Babatunder Fowler has a fake honorary doctorate degree from irish int. University.


https://mobile.twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/634410148224700416?p=v

vani86:
if it is in america and naija, they will start taking selfie

Take selfie and be doing 1st to post in Nairaland.....

colossus2:
Videoshop
Even after watching the video, adonbilivit

Then I give up

kodded:
Stuff like this willnt make front page, but if its about tonto dike showing her breast, before 3 views it will reach front page

Seriously,I still don't know why it didn't hit FP even after cc: mode and super mode.....that's y I usually don't bother creating topics these days. Anyway, NL is not my Father's, so let me take a chill pill.

On witnessing a car slowly backing into a river in Turkey’s capital city Istanbul, a group of thoughtful passers-by sat on the bonnet of the car to prevent it from falling in.
According to reports, the rented car was parked outside a museum. As it slowly began moving backwards to the edge of Bosphorus, those good samaritans decided to not move from the car’s bonnet till the crane finally arrived and pulled the car out of danger.



http://www.thequint.com/videos/2015/08/18/watch-istanbul-locals-save-a-car-from-falling-into-a-river#.VdLxgCJfcPg.facebook

Cc: lalasticlala
lalasticlala

INTROVERT:
don't worry, am not offended

Felt my like and share wasn't enough.....still had to come back to quote this....was like 'WOWWWWW'......luv it

I know in 3 month times, all this will be story

Cc: lalasticlala

In less than three months of Buhari's reign, the gory era of terrorism is back in Nigeria.
This is not the Nigeria that Muhammadu Buhari promised us in the build-up towards the presidential election. Neither is it the one he promised after he had won.

In a nationally-televised speech, hours after his declaration as president-elect, Buhari had told Nigerians: "Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will."

Fast-forward three months, and it instead looks as if it was the Boko Haram commander who directed that statement towards the Nigerian people.

In less than three months of Buhari's reign, the gory era of terrorism is back in Nigeria, and the insurgents are furiously striking the people again and again.


Inside Story: Battling Boko Haram

In the week of July 5, there was not a single day without an attack. In the preceding week, 145 people were murdered in twin raids in the northeastern Borno state. 

On July 16, Boko Haram suicide bombers detonated bombs in Gombe, another state in the northeast, killing 49 people at first count.

In its most recent attack, the insurgents killed at least 47 people in Borno in a trademark bomb blast on August 11.

The constant fear of Boko Haram attacks is not only palpable in the northeast.

Attacks and death threats

In July alone, there have been bomb attacks in Kano, Kaduna, Katsina and Plateau as well.

In the southwest, a Lagos-based journalist, Adeola Akinremi received a death threat from the sect in May.

While Boko Haram may not be seizing territories and controlling local governments at it did under the rule of the former President Goodluck Jonathan, its attacks in the last month - plus a death toll now nearing 1,000 - are a negative turnaround from the victories recorded in the final weeks of Jonathan's presidency.

For much of the Jonathan years, the overriding public complaint about the war against Boko Haram was focused on how the president positioned himself in the aftermath of attacks.

A few weeks before the presidential election, Jonathan - helped by a coalition of Nigerian, Chadian, Nigerien, and Cameroonian forces - seemed to make up for his shortcomings by nearly exterminating Boko Haram from northern Nigeria.

Jonathan may have handed over a battered federal purse with external and domestic debts to the tune of $63.7bn to his successor, but he managed to hand over an insurgency challenge that was lower in scale and intensity than the one he met.

Botched progress

Buhari has no excuse for botching all the progress that was recorded before his ascendancy.

It is not known what spell Buhari has cast on Nigerians, but the loss of nearly 1,000 lives in almost two months has not generated the kind of admonishment Jonathan faced in similar circumstances.

The pattern of recent attacks has been almost monotonous: identify a crowded location, hit it with a suicide bomber.

 

He may not have danced away at campaign rallies immediately after Boko Haram attacks like his predecessor, but he has yet to personally visit a single blast scene, and official government statements on the killings have been sparse.

Aside from relocating the military command centre to Borno state on his first day in office, travelling out of the country to solicit the help of world leaders in battling the insurgents, and sacking his predecessor's service chiefs and national security adviser, Nigeria can hardly point to a single Boko Haram success story under Buhari.

Therefore, it is no surprise that questions are being asked in the media if Nigerians are more lenient with Buhari on Boko Haram.

On July 20, Buhari travelled to the United States for what was obviously a very important engagement with Barack Obama, and partnership strategies for combating the insurgents was one of the headlines of their bilateral talks.

It was an important trip. The US remains one of Nigeria's long-standing partners against terrorism, committing at least $34m in equipment and logistics support for Nigerian, Chadian, Cameroonian, and Nigerien forces.

That excludes a $5m contribution to the Multinational Joint Task Force.

Buhari's fight

But it is actually at home that Buhari's greatest work against Boko Haram lies.

The pattern of recent attacks has been almost monotonous: identify a crowded location, hit it with a suicide bomber.

The president will do well to concentrate his greatest energy on boosting local surveillance capacities in the entire northern region in order to pre-empt attacks and foil them.

But Buhari does not need to be told what to do.

RELATED: Note to Boko Haram: Western education is NOT a sin

On April 1, in one of his first interviews as president-elect, BBC's Peter Okwoche asked him if he had thought about how to go about fulfilling all his promises to Nigerians.

And this was his response: "I think I wouldn't have made the promises if I didn't know how to fulfil it".

Now, Boko Haram is asking quick-fire questions of a pledge Buhari made in an interview with CNN to "effectively deal with them in a few months when we get into office".

If he truly had a plan for fulfilling that particular promise, now is the time to unleash it on the beasts of Nigeria's northeast.


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/07/boko-haram-return-buhari-150726100653152.html

Power might reside in Bourdillion but these APC guys need to give the prof some respect!!!!!

#Team Man Utd.....

In Summary....

As far as the President is concerned, corruption has no political party, no religion and no ethnic group.

Supported....


@simeonii_1

According to Governor Fashola, the Lagos state government spent less than N10m on tundefashola.com and not N78M as claimed by the present Lagos state government.

I don't get this, from the statement above, does it mean that the current govt. In lagos is fighting Fashola Seems this is an internal fight

God bless some wise parts of de Oduduwa Region

Allah or whatever bless others too if he so wishes.

Cc: lalasticlala....you may want to ve a view.

timilehin007:
U are such a stupid castrated son of a biatch.. Is it suppose to be a crime to chat with you that warrant this gibberish from ur wide dirty trap...? U lack etiquette nd lackadaisical.... Good night nitwit

Grabs dictionary.......and are you related to Mr Patrick Obayagbon?

There may be other unknown forces which impelled Justice Oloyede Olamide Folah­anmi to write a 39-page petition against the Governor of Osun State, Mr. Rauf Aregbe­sola, on the 19th of June. Otherwise, this youngish state high court judge did declare that “in presenting this petition, I’m not in any way motivated by malice, spite, pecu­niary interest or promise thereof, nor am I propelled by a desire for higher office…” In the hierarchy of 20 state high court judges in service in Osun State she places 18th.
The complete text of the petition is not available. The bits and pieces available in print and in the web read like the lamenta­tions of a patriot who felt let down by mis­government. Yet I’m sure Justice Oloyede Folahanmi must have been totally unpre­pared for what has assailed her since she submitted her petition, a document that is a showpiece of courage.
Justice Folahanmi had tried to see the governor, to talk to him about her misgiv­ings on her observations and if possible re­ceive explanations. The governor agreed, granted her an appointment and, then, re­neged. She tried again to reach the gov­ernor but the line had been ‘switched off.’ She then sat down and penned her petition which she then forwarded to the Osun State House of Assembly with the suggestion that her complaints against the governor might rise to the level of impeachable offenses. She also forwarded a copy to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), apparently, hoping the commission might find something interesting in it to investi­gate.
After shilly-shallying for weeks, the Osun State House forwarded the petition to the governor for his perusal and response. Governor Rauf Aregbesola, a man known for hard ball, then unleashed on Justice Fo­lahanmi the state’s All Progressives Con­gress’s (APC) political machine which, instantly, called on the judge to resign her position as a judge of the high court. She must resign because she is “ganging up with the opposition to destroy the state government of which she is an integral part.” The Director of Publicity Research and Strategy of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, accused her of using her privileged position to launch an undue at­tack on Governor Aregbesola. “It is a gross abuse of the privileges of her office for the judge to use the platform of the state’s judi­ciary to mount open and destructive chal­lenge against the state’s chief executive who is her boss in government.”
Mr. Oyatomi argued that the judge’s pe­tition indicates clearly her determination to bring down the Aregbesola government which the ethics of her status in the govern­ment prohibits. It would be dishonorable of her to continue to remain in government. “Whereas the judge, as a free citizen, has rights to express herself on matters affect­ing the country and her environment, but as a judge of the state high court she is ethi­cally and morally restrained from making pronouncements that would be prejudicial to the administration of justice,” Oyatomi declared.
The Osun State House forwarded the petition to the state’s chief judge who now invited Justice Folahanmi to interrogate her about the petition. Did she actually write it? She answered in the affirmative. The House then constituted a seven-man panel to review the petition and make a recom­mendation to the whole House. Of the seven members, not one came from the opposition party; all were members of the governor’s party, the APC. It was headed by the APC majority Leader, Mr. Adegboye Akintunde.
Governor Aregbesola was asked to reply to the petition, which he did without much ado. He treated it as if it meant nothing to him. The seven-man APC panel thereafter invited the judge. Justice Folahanmi asked for a copy of the governor’s response to her petition, apparently to enable her make in­formed answers to the probe panel’s ques­tions and follow-up questions. The panel refused to give her Governor Aregbesola’s response. She then refused to show up in person, but sent a counsel, Senior Advocate Ogunlesi, who appealed to the panel to oblige her the governor’s reply: “She may even come out to say ‘I’m sorry, I with­draw my petition’ after going through the governor’s reply and may not need to see the committee again…We are not running away. She is bold enough to write the pe­tition and she is prepared to defend it. If she should have the (governor’s) reply today she will be here tomorrow,” he assured the panel.
[b]A few days later the EFCC sent her an invitation to come to the commission’s of­fice, Like an accused person. She declined and asked the EFCC to come see her with its questions in Oshogbo.
Now the country is watching this drama with baited breath because the success or failure of this new government’s claim to fight corruption must depend on how well Justice Folahanmi is treated. The gover­nor thinks it is a political fight. Osun State APC insists it is a political fight. Lawyers are engrossed with the ethical dimensions of a petition by a judge. But what happens to this woman ought to command the attention of the Buhari Presidency because even if it is a political fight, it ought to be responded to by government as a moral fight. The cru­sade against corruption and graft is moral as well as legal. It is impossible to begin a meaningful fight against corruption with­out whistle-blowers.
In a country determined to reduce corrup­tion and misgovernment, Justice Folahanmi would be handled with utmost care and re­spect if not by the Osun State Governor’s Office at least by the Osun State House of Assembly. Even the Nazis found that no matter the power, a police force without informants is blind. In the same manner, a fight against corruption without whistle-blowers is a waste of time. The only way majority of Nigerians would believe that this government is serious as well as sin­cere in fighting corruption is for President Buhari to send a bill for the protection and security of whistle-blowers to the National Assembly for immediate enactment[/b]..

http://www.today.ng/blog/08064610-osun-a-whistle-blower-on-the-ropes/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Seems no news anymore without GEJ...