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I also faced this frustration earlier in life, thank God i have been able to reduce it to manageable level now. @OP you will finally have to buy generator. I hate generators cause of the noise but, if you know power may be off for up to 24hrs, you have no choice.
Inverters are good if your location does not suffer outage for more than 4hrs (depending on size of your battery bank).
But dont give up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgOq9pBkY0I&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

Donald Trump, the impossibly coiffed real estate mogul, reality TV star and de facto leader of the "birther" movement, made his "big announcement" about President Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying he would give $5 million to a charity of Obama's choice in exchange for the release of the commander in chief's college records and passport application. The announcement was immediately mocked on Twitter.

"Barack Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country," Trump said in a video shot from his New York office and uploaded to YouTube. "I'm very honored to have gotten him to release his long-form birth certificate or whatever it may be."

"I have a deal for the president," Trump continued. "If Barack Obama opens up and gives his college records and applications and if he gives his passport applications and records I will give to a charity of his choice—inner-city children in Chicago, American Cancer Society, AIDS research, anything he wants—a check immediately for $5 million."

The professional carnival barker also issued an accompanying press release on his Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=26987232&l=9c7529f686&id=153080620724

Reactions On Twitter:
Our expectations about @realDonaldTrump's Obama announcement were clearly not low enough," New York magazine said on its Twitter feed.

"BREAKING: Donald Trump demands to know what medical school Dr. Dre went to," @BScalabrine24 wrote on Twitter.

"Trump will give $5 million if Obama releases his college records," Twitter user @WatchJ tweeted. "I'll give a crackhead $3 if Trump releases that squirrel sittin' on his head."

"BREAKING: Donald Trump replaces bed bugs as Americas #1 Pest," Lizz Winstead tweeted.

"We're going to make a very important cat announcement shortly that will change the Internet," Buzzfeed declared.

"Sorry Trump, but in the same way the U.S. doesn't negotiate with terrorists, presidents shouldn't negotiate with idiots," @the_moonface wrote.

"This Donald Trump character is Andy Kaufman's greatest bit ever," Aaron Blitzstein tweeted.

"Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people," the fake Morgan Freeman said.

"Trump, would you be a dear and offer 5 million dollars if Romney will reveal ANY PART of his economic plan?" Alex Baze wrote on Twitter.

The Onion tweeted: "'I'm a sad, pathetic human being and a complete waste of life.' — Donald Trump."

In an interview with "Fox & Friends" on Monday, Trump said, "I have something very, very big concerning the president of the United States. I will be announcing it sometime probably Wednesday and it's going to be very big."

"Will it change the election?" co-host Gretchen Carlson asked Trump. "Possibly," Trump replied. "It's very big—bigger than anybody would know."

Following Trump's titillating tease, there was some speculation that he would unveil divorce papers that Michelle Obama had allegedly drawn up more than a decade ago. Others thought the "Celebrity Apprentice" host had proof of the president's rumored cocaine use during college.

In August, Trump was supposed to deliver a "big surprise" at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., but Hurricane Isaac forced the GOP to cut his appearance from the truncated schedule. The "big surprise"? A video featuring an Obama impersonator who Trump predictably fired."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/trump-announcement-obama-161111445--election.html

Getting interesting.

Both candidates presented false info. you guys should not single out Mitt.

FACT CHECK: Flunking geography, history

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters didn't always get the straight goods when President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney made their case for foreign policy and national security leadership Monday night before their last super-sized audience of the campaign. A few of their detours into domestic issues were problematic too.

Romney flubbed Middle East geography. Obama got Romney's record as Massachusetts governor wrong.

At the same time, they injected a little more accuracy into two leading misstatements of the campaign: Romney's claim for months that Obama went around apologizing for America, and the president's assertion, going back to his State of the Union address in January, that the U.S. military's exit from Afghanistan will yield money to rebuild America.

A look at some of their statements and how they compare with the facts:

ROMNEY: "Mr. President, the reason I call it an apology tour is because you went to the Middle East and you flew to Egypt and to Saudi Arabia and to Turkey and Iraq. And by the way, you skipped Israel, our closest friend in the region, but you went to the other nations. And by the way, they noticed that you skipped Israel. And then in those nations, and on Arabic TV, you said that America had been dismissive and derisive. You said that on occasion America had dictated to other nations."

OBAMA: "Nothing Gov. Romney just said is true, starting with this notion of me apologizing. This has been probably the biggest whopper that's been told during the course of this campaign. And every fact checker and every reporter who's looked at it, governor, has said this is not true."

THE FACTS: Romney has indeed repeatedly and wrongly accused the president of traveling the world early in his presidency and apologizing for U.S. behavior. Obama didn't say "sorry" in those travels. But in this debate, Romney at last explained the context of his accusation: not that Obama apologized literally, but that he had been too deferential in his visits to Europe, Latin America and the Muslim world.

Obama said while abroad that the U.S. acted "contrary to our traditions and ideals" in its treatment of terrorist suspects, that "America has too often been selective in its promotion of democracy," that the U.S. "certainly shares blame" for international economic turmoil and has sometimes "shown arrogance and been dismissive, even divisive" toward Europe. Yet he also praised America and its ideals.

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OBAMA: "What I think the American people recognize is, after a decade of war, it's time to do some nation-building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools."

THE FACTS: If Romney's "apology tour" was a campaign whopper, so has been Obama's repeated claim that ending expensive wars meant the U.S. now has money to spend at home. There is no such peace dividend because the wars were financed largely by borrowing.

Yet Obama, too, watched his words a little more carefully Monday night, with his milder suggestion that "some resources" are freed up. That's a more plausible point, if only because U.S. "resources" include the ability to continue to go deeper in debt, but for the purpose of fixing roads, bridges and the like, instead of for making war.

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ROMNEY: "Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea."

THE FACTS: Iran has a large southern coastline with access to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. And it has no land border with Syria.

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ROMNEY: Said that when he was Massachusetts governor, high-school students who graduated in the top quarter "got a four-year, tuition-free ride at any Massachusetts public institution of higher learning."

OBAMA: "That happened before you came into office."

ROMNEY: "That was actually mine, actually, Mr. President. You got that fact wrong."

THE FACTS: Romney was right. The John and Abigail Adams scholarship program began in 2004 when he was governor.

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ROMNEY: "I said that we would provide guarantees, and that was what was able to allow these (auto) companies to go through bankruptcy, to come out of bankruptcy. Under no circumstance would I do anything other than to help this industry get on its feet. And the idea that has been suggested that I would liquidate the industry. Of course not. That's the height of silliness. I have never said I would liquidate the industry."

OBAMA: "Gov. Romney, you keep on trying to airbrush history here. You were very clear that you would not provide government assistance to the U.S. auto companies, even if they went through bankruptcy. You said that they could get it in the private marketplace. That wasn't true. They would have gone through a liquidation."

THE FACTS: It's true that Romney didn't preach liquidation of GM and Chrysler and that he saw his approach as a way to save the auto companies. But his was an improbable course. Opposing a government bailout, Romney instead favored private loans to finance the automakers' restructuring in bankruptcy court. His proposed government loan guarantees would only have come after the companies went through bankruptcy. At the time, however, both automakers were nearly out of cash and were bad credit risks. The banking system was in crisis and private money wasn't available. So without hefty government aid, the assets of both companies probably would have been sold in liquidation auctions.

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ROMNEY on SYRIA: "What I'm afraid of is we've watched over the past year or so, first the president saying, 'Well, we'll let the U.N. deal with it.' And Assad — excuse me, Kofi Annan — came in and said we're going to try to have a cease-fire. That didn't work. Then it went to the Russians and said, 'Let's see if you can do something.' We should be playing the leadership role there."

OBAMA: "We are playing the leadership role."

THE FACTS: Under Obama, the United States has taken a lead in trying to organize Syria's splintered opposition, even if the U.S. isn't interested in military intervention or providing direct arms support to the rebels. The administration has organized dozens of meetings in Turkey and the Middle East aimed at rallying Syria's political groups and rebel formations to agree on a common vision for a democratic future after Syrian President Bashar Assad is defeated. And Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton brought dozens of nations together as part of the Friends of Syria group to combine aid efforts to Syria's opposition and help it win the support of as many as Syrians as possible. The U.S. also is involved in vetting recipients of military aid from America's Arab allies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Romney is partly right in pointing out Obama's failure to win U.N. support for international action in Syria. But the Friends of Syria group has helped bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid and other forms of assistance to Syrian civilians and the political opposition.

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OBAMA: "What I would not have had done was left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. And that certainly would not help us in the Middle East." THE FACTS: Obama was suggesting that he had never favored keeping U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the December 2011 withdrawal deadline that the Bush administration had negotiated with the Iraqi government. Actually, the Obama administration tried for many months to win Iraqi agreement to keeping several thousand American troops there beyond 2011 to continue training and advising the Iraqi armed forces. The talks broke down over a disagreement on legal immunity for U.S. troops.

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ROMNEY: "We have an enormous trade imbalance with China, and it's worse this year than last year and it's worse last year than the year before."

THE FACTS: That's true as far as it goes but the imbalance is far from unique to the Obama years. The U.S. has run a trade deficit with China since 1985 and the gap has widened nearly every year since. According to Chinese customs data, Beijing reported a $181.3 billion trade surplus with the United States in 2010. That grew to $202.3 billion last year. The surplus for the first nine months of this year was $161.9 billion, well ahead of the level at this point in 2011.

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OBAMA: "You are familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because you invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas. And, you know, that's your right. I mean, that's how our free market works."

THE FACTS: Bain Capital, the private equity company that Romney ran from 1984 to 2001, did invest in several companies that shifted American jobs and operations from the U.S. to China and other foreign nations. In one instance in 1998, Bain bought a 10 percent investment stake in Global-Tech, a Hong Kong firm that used mainland Chinese factories to make toasters and other appliances for U.S. manufacturers that were phasing out American operations and jobs. Romney held full Bain partnership stakes in that deal before the firm sold its holding later that year. Bain also invested in several firms that outsourced to Mexico in the early 2000s, but by then Romney had begun shifting away from Bain to a role running the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. And in almost all of these cases, it remains unclear how much oversight Bain had in the overseas shifts. The Romney campaign has said that Romney's holdings were mostly passive in nature, particularly after he left the firm.

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ROMNEY: "In the 2000 debates, there was no mention of terrorism."

THE FACTS: There was passing mention of terrorism in the 2000 debates. In the Oct. 17, 2000, debate between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush, Gore talked about his work in Congress to "deal with the problems of terrorism and these new weapons of mass destruction." And in the vice presidential debate, Democrat Joe Lieberman defended the Clinton administration's record of preparing the armed forces to "meet the threats of the new generation of tomorrow, of weapons of mass destruction, of ballistic missiles, terrorism, cyber warfare." Romney's larger point, that the U.S. did not anticipate anything on the scale of terrorist threat that existed, is supported by the light attention paid to the subject in the debates.

http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-flunking-geography-history-033954434--election.html

Who is that trying to bring down an [size=16pt]Iroko[/size] with a broom?

FIY: Ondo people have stated loud and clear that [size=16pt]"A broom can’t bring down an Iroko"[/size].

Now where is Salami??

why the headquarter in Germany?? Not in africa??

Na only Obama sympathizers full here?? And they can make mouth too pray they borrow Obama some tonight.

October 11, 2012 by Agency Reporter Leave a Comment

Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki has rejected an attempt by MPs to award themselves a bonus of more than $105,000 each.

The MPs, already among Africa’s highest paid lawmakers, had wanted the money to be paid when parliament breaks up ahead of elections due in March 2013, the BBC reports.

But their attempt sparked angry protests against “greedy hyenas”.

Kibaki said the bonuses were unconstitutional and unaffordable given the country’s financial situation.

Kenya’s 222 lawmakers receive a tax-free salary of about $10,000 a month. The minimum wage in Nairobi is about $1,500 a year.

But last Thursday they introduced a last-minute amendment to the Finance Act which would have seen them receive the bonus – 2bn Kenyan shillings – as a send-off package.

Analysts say tax increases were likely in order to foot the $23m bill.

In a statement Kibaki’s office rejected the bid, saying he “objected to the amendment on the grounds that it was first unconstitutional, and secondly untenable in the prevailing economic circumstances in the country”.

It comes shortly after salaries for teachers and doctors were increased after weeks of strikes over pay and conditions.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga also expressed his opposition to the bid, saying on Twitter, “I would like to make it clear as I did this past weekend that I am against the MP’s gratuity bonus.”

According to the AFP news agency, someone earning the minimum wage in Kenya would have to work for 61 years to earn the equivalent of an MP’s proposed bonus.

More than 100 people had marched through the capital carrying placards denouncing the MPs as “thieves” and “greedy hyenas”.

They then marched towards parliament and camped outside, chanting “mwizi”, which means thief in Kiswahili, when any MP drove by.

“How come our teachers had to strike for three weeks to get a salary hike, yet within a single sitting the MPs could easily increase their remuneration?” said Morris Odhiambo, one of the protest organisers.

“Where is the two billion shillings going to come from?”

Rights groups, including Transparency International and the Kenyan Human Rights Commission, had issued a joint statement describing the bonus move as “extremely disturbing”.


They called on Kenyans to let MPs know “that they are not willing to foot the cost of their greed”.
Hope this sort of news will happen in Nigeria soon.

http://www.punchng.com/news/africa/kenyan-president-rejects-mps-bonus-package/

Okija_juju: [b]WELCOME TO NIGERIA....

I guess thats the solution we all wanted abi?!

We just fought........

JUNGLE JUSTICE with JUNGLE JUSTICE.



Supposedly inncocent students get killed by a few miscreants in the society, the houses and properties of innocent residents of the same community gets destroyed.. CASE SOLVED!!

ANIMALS!!!

Nigeria = 1 big ANIMAL FARM.

Whats the point now?! The 4 boys that got lynched, people asked where the police were.. Now that the reprisal attacks on Aluu happened, wasnt the police there?! F[u]ck it, even the Nigerian Airforce had a Helicopter Gunship hovering the community while the students ran wild in the community plundering it. What has this solved?!!! NOTHING!!

Look at Nairalanders saying the community deserve it.. Yet 4 boys go into a community that has been plagued by incessant robbery and R[a]pe attacks around 5 a.m to recover a supposed loan armed with a gun and collect laptops and phones and in the process got lynched to death by the vigilante hired to guard the community that the Nigerian Police has failed to secure and THEY DIDNT DESERVE IT..

The exact same thing that killed 4 students is the exact same thing that we did in protest of their deaths. We call Aluu people Animals, we are also Animals. The Aluu community thugs lynched and killed 4 students illegally, The Nigerian Army and Police arrested and lynched over 10 suspects legally, the National Association Nigerian Students (NANS) rampaged, looted, destroyed and burnt the community where the boys were killed legally..

NOW MY QUESTION IS: Where is the Law & Order?! Who is right and who is wrong?!!



Again.. To all those people who pointed fingers at Aluu Community , Please BEHOLD YOUR COUNTRY!!

Again I say WELCOME TO NIGERIA.. THIS IS HOW WE RUN THINGS AROUND HERE.. EVERYONE IS THE LAW!![/b]

Its a pity that the students had to remove all doubt that they and ALUU are one and the same

Who is greater than DEATH?? No one!! Jesus Christ's death was even foretold as revelation and he still died. Who is IBB?? Death awaits us all once ur number is up you go.

Since you cant invest in other people's biz and you see flaws in many proposals, why not correct the flaws and then invest in it?? Whoever can provide for himself and his family more than their needs should use his/her excess to help those not as capable, by showing them how to fish.

For each failed business i had a lesson to learn. One business that has always been good to me is executing IT contracts, funny enough i always said that this is the means to an end. The end being to become a manufacturer. But I thank God it has been good to me. I make sure i abide by three rules no matter who am dealing with.
1. No customer will ever cheat or take what is due to me, I must have checks and balances to ensure he/she/they wont die my money. If those checks and balances can not be there for what ever reason, then there is no business (especially if am making financial contribution).
2. I always backup my money back guarantee, I always do no matter what. If i sell to you and you arent satisfied, i take back my product/service and pay you back your money. (I wont take yours wrongfully and dont try to take mine wrongfully).
3. Am always thankful how ever business turns.

Its a big risk doing business in Nigeria, and its tough. But its even bigger risk not doing at all.

Is vulture meat poisonous??

I believe the man would have made more sales if he clearly stated at his Suya stand that its vulture suya.

Is vulture not a bird like chicken and turkey? Only that it feeds on dead animals??
His offense is just the deception, but if you have eaten such suya, please tell us how it did taste.

Ohh like this is just begining. Learn to express yourselves without taking lives or destroying properties.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57495509/anti-islamic-ad-claiming-its-not-islamophobia-its-islamorealism-goes-up-in-ny-train-stations/

(CBS/AP) LARCHMONT, N.Y. - An anti-Islamic advertisement has gone up at several Metro-North Railroad stations in Westchester County.

It reads: "It's not Islamophobia, it's Islamorealism."

The signs were paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an organization ran by blogger and political activist Pamela Geller. It associates Islam with 19,250 terrorist attacks carried out by extremists since the 9/11. She told CBS radio station 1010 WINS in New York that the sign is intended to tell people that it is not "Islamophobic' to oppose jihad terror."

"The ad is just stating a fact. There have been well over 19,000 jihadi attacks since 9/11," Geller said. "People need to know this. Obviously, everybody is surprised by this number and I think that's part of the reason why we need to run these ads. People need to know this is going on across the world."

The Metropolitan Transpiration Authority in New York (MTA) said it doesn't support the sentiment displayed in the ad but doesn't bar advertising based on content, according to CBS station WCBS in New York.

WCBS also reported that the American Freedom Defense Initiative previously attempted to place another ad with the MTA that had a picture of a mosque next to a plane flying toward the World Trade towers with the words "Why There?" In a decision earlier this summer, the federal court declared that the MTA would be violating the American Freedom Defense Initiative's First Amendment rights if they blocked that ad, according to CBS radio station WCBS 880 in New York.

Last month, pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel ads appeared at Metro-North stations.

MTA Chairman and CEO Joseph Lhota said the agency may discuss its policies on political ads in September.

The Anti-Defamation League said to condemn the entire faith is unwarranted. Greenburg Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said to WINS that if the MTA feels strongly about opposing the message posted on the sign, the agency should pay for ads to display their sentiment.

But, some commuters don't see what the controversy is about. One rider told 1010 WINS that even though some people might be offended, people are too easily offended by many aspects of things.

BRAVO!! BRAVO!! BRAVO!! But wait a min, thought there was dialoging

ACM10: Japan is a pacifist country with a pacifist constitution that forbade their military from taking part in a war outside yheir territory. Besides, they have mutual defence treaty with the US. US can always allow Japs to do anything to defend their country. But the Japs are unbelievably oriented towards pacifism. They will almost always punish any politician with Bush-type of orientation at the polls. So their politicians learn to thread the path of caution when it comes to war.

In support of your statement, Japanese military is still very well equipped even though they use more of US hardware. Japan was not demilitarized after the wwII, rather they decided never to get involved in any conflict outside their territory.

It will be a mistake for this to escalate for both parties.

And why did he have to tell you? The husband should have moved on having ended the affair as if nothing happened. Now see what he has caused by telling you even when you were not suspecting. Some men sef, they like making issues complicated, then adding complication on the complication. Infact he deserve whatever you do to him.

My one and only Boss(May he live long) advised me thus "If your wife suspects you cheat, or she hears you cheat, even if she caught you red handed. Deny Deny Deny!!!! and finally Deny!"

@OP, vent your anger, in fact if he comes home tonight slap him severally until you start crying. If he is a real man he will take the slap, cuddle you and after your cry you wouldn't think about it much again. But if he is not a real man and you suspect he will beat you to pulp on your first slap, abeg keep going for counseling, double your therapy sef. or triple it.

Some one summarised it as:

"Uwa n'acho ikpu". Please someone should interpret this for me, they said the quote is reason for all this senseless killing.

FSU: Why ain't Yorobbers commenting on here?

There was a Tinubu IV bomb blast, casualty figure unknoown.

Na wa oohh, Why is PDP doing this na?? EEhhh?? This PDP seff ...??

van bonattel: Nice one Obi,

Lawyers in the house, does a state governor have the legal right to order the demolition of a suspects house and businesses even as the suspect has not been convicted?

What is the difference of this and bakassi boys methods?

Anambra state has a law allowing the state gov to destroy houses liked in kidnapping and armed robbery. The guy deserves even more than that.

this is bigger than all the books some ppl have read in this life time put together.

How you were raised has nothing to do with who will occupy Washington after November. Its rather a choice between a man that doubled the worth of a business after taking it and a man who increased size of government and spending and increasing their national debt while healing the earth and stopping ocean rises.
Lets see how it will go. Michele did make a wonderful speech though!

People generally prefer silver gold diamonds to copper. My opinion though.

Ohh shit he meant corp members, ouch .....

Na so for Nigerian news, Different versions must spring up, including beer parlor versions, all na news.

A cow may take over from him for all i care.

@Op look well oohh before you risk your cash. Dont trust these chinese people. Most of them are scammers. They are as fraudulent as Nigerians. My friend ordered for harddisks and till today the seller (chinese) never sent it. There are so many other stories. Another person ordered 8gig usb disks, it came but you can only use 1.7gig, so effectively he was sold 1.7gig flashdrive at cost of 8gig.

[size=14pt]Beware of CHINESE fraudsters[/size]

Nough said.

I advice you to buy used laptops from US or Europe, they sell hot as well.

What is it used for apart from eating with bread?

If Buhari believes he has clean hands, He should dare IBB to say what he knows. If this matter dies without Buhari calling IBB's bluff, then its certain Buhari has always been the master hypocrite.

@chemashie, what other products are exported that you know?? You talked of groundnut, in what form is the groundnut exported?? For someone that has a registered business, what else does he need apart from knowledge of source of the materials??

pro01: That is all there is to it. I can't believe how credulous most people are. Since when did the Nigerian police (or media for that matter) suddenly become so trustworthy? This entire story is nonsensical, sorry to say.

How can a hardened criminal answer the phone of a lady he just killed? Even if he did, how did the police trace the phone call to the exact house they where in Festac? Is that how sophisticated our Police force has suddenly become? Why and how did the hotel employees simply take the dead girl's body to a mortuary - without informing the police beforehand as is the standard practice? What is the name of the hotel? There are just too many loopholes here, and I understand why the family would want to present this 'clean' version of events in order to save their pride.

I only hope that the police wouldn't frame-up innocent people for the murder and coerce them into making false confessional statements; we all know that is what the Nigerian Police knows how to do best. I wouldn't be surprised if this girl's death has nothing to do with facebook to begin with.

i agree with you. This story is bullshit.
They said she disappeared in July, they are just finding her corpse now in the morgue. How did they get access to her chat logs on facebook without knowing her facebook credentials? Or maybe they contacted facebook for the info? Why did the hotel not look through the CCTV when they discovered the corpse?? Why did the hotel not call the police when they discovered the corpse but were able to drop it at the morgue?? Has an autopsy been done on the body?? how did they determine she was drugged and then strangled without an autopsy?? How did they rule out drug or cocaine overdose??

RIP Cynthia, but being a General's daughter and a business woman, you should have know that you were safer paying with a cheque how could you carry cash to a hotel for a legitimate business deal??