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Sordid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feel like throwing up, this is terrible, no! I'm out of here!

Ejike3:
LASTMAN do not collect bribe only when you offend. I was in a bus one day heading towards Obalande and a police man was their too, they double crossed tried to arrest the driver and the vehicle. When the police asked what the matter is, they told him that they have been looking for the vehicle for knocking down okada a week before. When asked the vehicle number, the LASTMA could not give it off hand. That is what saved the driver that day cos they were ready to tow the vehicle that morning.

What a shocker, a vehicle they've been looking for, for a week and yet they can't give the vehicle no. off hand. This daylight robbery should be checked.

Britain's Roman Catholic Church is advising lovelorn singles to direct their February 14 requests for love to St Raphael, rather than St Valentine.

Over the years St Valentine has come incorrectly to be associated with finding love, the Church says.

He is the patron saint for those who have already found their soulmate.

St Raphael is the patron saint for happy encounters and it is to him those fearing the Valentine's post should properly direct their prayers.


Clare Ward, spokeswoman for the Catholic Enquiry Office, the official body providing information on Catholic life, said that while the distinction between the saints has always been clear within the Church it has, over the years, been blurred outside.

"Saint Valentine passed a note to his jailer's daughter, whose sight he is thought to have cured," she said.

"The note had no romantic content, but it's from this story that the tradition of sending notes of appreciation has come from.

Why not come along to a prayer group it could be your lucky night

"If tomorrow you are still looking for your soul mate, the actual patron saint is St Raphael.

"He's the person you should dedicate your day or pray to if you are looking for Mr or Mrs right."

St Raphael, according to legend, helped Tobias enter into marriage with Sarah, who had seen seven previous bridegrooms perish on the eve of their weddings.

It is he within the canon of Catholic saints who is properly associated with helping to forge partnerships.
Written in 1477, the Valentine message is from Margery Brews of Norfolk to her fiance , John Paston. In it she tells him that she has asked her mother to put pressure on her father to increase her dowry while at the same time telling John that if he loves her, hell marry her anyway.
The oldest known Valentine's message, dating from 1477

St Valentine is said to have been martyred in Rome in 269.

While his exact history is unclear, Valentine is thought to have existed as archaeologists have unearthed an early church dedicated to someone of that name.

One theory is that he was a priest in Rome who continued to marry Christian couples in defiance of the law of the day.

On the eve of his execution, he is said to have signed a note to his jailer's daughter: "From your Valentine."


Those hoping for divine intervention to help their love lives may well appreciate the correction in target for their prayers, but Miss Ward also had some more advice.

"There is a lot of evidence to suggest that young people who have tapped into prayer groups have found partners," she said.

"Those who have exhausted traditional routes like online dating should try spiritual networks.

"Why not come along to a prayer group - it could be your lucky night."

Ndi Igbo mma mma nu ooo!
E sitara m na mbido guru ihe edere na elilia rue ebea mana onwe otu ihe m choputara,
Igwe USA turu anyi aka n'ihu si, onye mara na o ma atu ilu ya bia ka ya na ya wale onwe ha.
Mana site mgbe okwuru okwua rue ebea, o dighi onye mere ka oghotara ihe Igwe kwuru.
Ebe osi etua di, Igwe biko tupatara anyi ilu gi ka anyi si n' aka gi mmuta biko.

I never know that the one that gave birth to the other set of octupulets is a Nigerian!!!!!!!!!!!

A WOMAN has given birth to EIGHT babies – America's second live-born set of octuplets.

The mum, who has not been identified, gave birth to six boys and two girls weighing between 1.8lbs and 3.4lbs yesterday.

The hospital had scheduled a caesarean for seven babies, but medics were stunned when an eighth was born.

Dr Karen Maples said: “It’s a surprise.

“Eight newborns are in stable condition and they’re doing quite well.”

Dr Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine at the hospital, added: "It is quite easy to miss a baby when you’re anticipating seven babies.

“Ultrasound doesn’t show you everything.”

The babies were born at Kaiser Permanante hospital in southern California.

Doctors said the babies were born nine weeks premature but were in a stable condition.

Two newborns were placed on ventilators and a third needs oxygen.

Hospital spokeswoman Myra Suarez said she could not release any information about the mother, including her condition or if she had used fertility drugs.

“They are all doing the best they can,” she said.

Dr Mandhir Gupta, a neo-natologist who cared for the infants, said: "She’s a very strong woman, so she probably will be able to handle all eight babies.”

The mother checked into the hospital in her 23rd week of pregnancy and gave birth seven weeks later.

All eight babies will probably remain in the hospital for at least two months and the mother should be released in a week, Dr Maples added.

It is estimated the delivery of the babies lasted just FIVE MINUTES.

Dr Henry said: “They were all screaming and kicking around very vigorously.”

Forty-six hospital staff and four delivery rooms were used for the octuplets’ births.

After one baby was born, staff rushed the newborn into another room and waited for the next, the hospital said.

Medics repeatedly practiced for the deliveries in preparation for the multiple birth.

The first live-born octuplets were born in Houston in 1998 but one baby died about a week later.

The surviving siblings – girls Ebuka, Gorom, Chidi, Chima and Echerem, and their brothers Ikem and Jioke – celebrated their 10th birthdays in December.

Their Nigerian-born parents, Nkem Chukwu and Iyke Louis Udobi, said they were astonished and grateful their children had grown up to be healthy and active youngsters.

Chukwu said the new parents have a lot to look forward to.

“Just enjoy it. It’s a blessing, truly a blessing,” Chukwu said. “We’ll keep praying for them."


http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2176693.ece

And if God no give you at all nko? What will you do? Excuse me please hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

minto:
As we salute the expertise of Sully in safe landing _{or is it safe crashing?} the jet, let's give all glory to God almighty for His mercies. Bird strike, as they call it could happen anywhere, anytime and it takes divine intervention to put things right in such situation. As much as I dread local flight within Nigeria, I still believe we have intelligent pilots who could handle similar situation succesfully but prompt rescue operations might not be there like it was on Hudson and that's where the difference lies.
  I once had auto crash on Lagos/Ibadan expressway with 3 other friends; we almost bleed to death waiting for help from the police. According to one of us who was very conscious of what was going on then, we layed helplessly there for close to one hr. But as soon as a volunteer  took us to the hospital, the police came around and towed  our vehicle to their station, ransacked the baggages and ridiculously helped themselves to whatever caught their fancy, including colognes and disposabe camera. As if that was not enough, we were made to pay a some of 20,000 before the car was released to us "for endangering other people's life". I never stopped asking myself, HOW?
  However, there is nothing impossible for God. He can turn the situation around and make our country what we all wish her to be. Let's keep praying.

Spot on dear rather see this i-laugh will rather attack any one who dare say that our emergency response system needs attention. Even as I write now other incidences that could have been either averted or loss minimized are going on all due to negligence. The way out; see the problem name it, then together let's get  for them

I have had a good laugh reading thru all the responses to this thread,
some have queried why anyone should think that we cannot achieve
similar feat here others countered by narrating how poor our
response teams are. I whispered to myself that patriotism is good o!
But there is nothing patriotic in seeing a problem and covering it rather
than naming it and finding ways of dealing with it. Not long ago an air
craft crashed not into any river but right there at the airport and there
was almost no survivor, why? they were all burnt to death after the crash.
I can go on to bring to your notice similar occurrences but don't let me bug
you with more. Naija 4 life!

THE hero pilot of a stricken jetliner saved 155 lives last night — as he dramatically BELLY-FLOPPED it into a freezing river.

The Airbus A320, which hit a flock of GEESE, ploughed into the icy water — where dazed passengers then scrambled on to the wings.

As they stood patiently waiting to be rescued, cool-headed captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III — nicknamed Sully — calmly walked TWICE through the flooded plane to check it was empty before becoming the last man out in New York.

Last night — after 78 of those on board were rushed to hospital to be treated for injuries — the city’s mayor saluted the veteran Texan flier’s “masterful job” in landing the jet on the Hudson River.
Spectacular

Michael Bloomberg said after personally congratulating the ex-US fighter ace, 57: “This pilot did a wonderful job and it would appear the crew, passengers and one infant on board got out safely.”

New York Governor David Patterson declared: “We have had a Miracle on 34th Street — now I think we had a Miracle on the Hudson.

“This was a heroic act from the pilot who saved himself and everyone else on board.

“This must now count as one of the most spectacular days in the history of New York in terms of our public agencies and all they did for the passengers who will tonight go home to their families.”

Ferries were among a flotilla of boats that raced to the jet after it slammed into the water at 150mph on one of the coldest days of the year.

The river is 50ft deep where the plane came down. Rescuers feared carnage — but were stunned to find all 150 passengers and five crew alive.

A shivering survivor told how everyone was ordered to assume crash positions as the plane suffered one of aviation’s most dreaded fates less than 45 seconds after take-off — a “double bird strike”.

With BOTH of his engines kaput the pilot shouted: “We’re coming down. Brace, brace!”

One passenger said after being taken to dry land: “The pilot said to us, ‘Prepare for impact’. Immediately people started yelling and crying. I said to myself, ‘OK this is it, let’s do it’.

“We heard a loud bang, like a car crash. Somehow the plane stayed afloat.”
Rafts

Many of those treated in hospital after being taken off the wings were suffering from exposure after braving temperatures of -7°C.

One passenger said a woman’s leg was “cut off”. Survivor Jeff Kolodjay, from Norwalk, Connecticut, said: “People were bleeding all over. We hit the water pretty hard. It was scary.” Another said: “A lot of people started praying and just collecting themselves.

“It was quite stunning. We knew there wasn’t a lot of time because we were quite close to the ground at that point and we could tell that the descent was somewhat rapid. At that point people were very quiet.

“The river was very, very smooth. The pilot extended the flaps. I don’t know if he put the gear down or not but it was just a great landing.

“I was expecting the plane would flip over or break a part. That obviously didn’t happen. It did jockey back and forth — that seemed to last an eternity.” The life rafts of the US Airways jet deployed as icy water flooded the plane in seconds.

By the time all on board were evacuated it was 4ft deep. Rescuers were seen pulling some through an emergency door. Those on board then simply walked on to the wings — calmly standing around waiting to be taken on to boats.

One passenger said: “It got pretty dark and smoky inside. At first it was a bit of a panic. There were a couple of people who took charge and started yelling, ‘Calm down’.

“It’s incredible that everyone seems to be still alive. Thank the Lord — and thank the pilot. I can’t believe somehow he managed to land that plane safely.” Up to eight ferries and local water taxis raced to the scene — swiftly joined by police boats.

Fred Burretta saw one of the engines blazing after the geese were sucked in.

He said: “I was in seat 15A right over the engine that was flaming.

“The engine blew out, the pilot turned around and made a line for the river. There was a lot of silence.

“The pilot said, ‘Prepare for impact’ — we went into water. It was a phenomenal landing.”

Another survivor said: “We just hit and somehow the plane stayed afloat.” Flight 1549 to Charlotte, North Carolina, crashed near Manhattan’s 48th Street within three minutes of taking off from LaGuardia Airport.

An air traffic controller said the pilot — who has 40 years’ experience and has pioneered safety courses for fellow fliers — at first tried to head for a nearby airport for an emergency landing.

He realised he was not going to make it — so had no choice but to ditch in the river.

Witnesses told how — with no engines — the captain made a textbook landing on the water. One astonished office worker said: “I saw the plane slowly gliding into the Hudson — like it had no power.

“At the very last minute it pulled up a little.

“There was a massive spray of water which covered the plane.
Fuel

“The belly hit the water first. It was just seconds before we saw the door blow off then people were on the wings.

“Ferry boats immediately left the piers, probably there in less than two minutes.”

Fellow witness Barbara Sambriski told how as soon as she saw the plane she realised it was in trouble. She said: “I just thought, ‘Why is it so low?’ — and splash, it hit the water.”

Journalist Alex Whittaker, who saw the drama from a 22nd floor meeting room in Times Square, said: “The doors opened and we could see life rafts.

“We could see people climbing out on to the water.”

An aviation official said: “The reports of bird strikes come from eyewitnesses on the ground.”

Early today the jet — which had appeared to be slowly sinking — was towed to a harbour wall. Experts said it stayed afloat so long because the domestic flight was a relatively short hop — meaning the Airbus’s tanks were only half-full of fuel.

One aviation expert said of the hero captain: “The odds were stacked against him and most pilots wouldn’t have liked their chances.”

British ex-pilot Eric Moody said: “You have to hit big birds to stop the engines.

“I would say that was a very successful ditching of that aircraft. Whoever has flown it has done a very good job. He’s a hero.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2138642.ece


I don't want to immagine what would be the case if it happened here

As the African gangs gain clout, conflict with the Neapolitan mafia known as the Camorra intensifies, made brutally clear by an attempted hit that left six Ghanaians dead.

Reporting from Castel Volturno, Italy — Soaring on cocaine, guns smoking, the Camorra hit squad sped down the Via Domitiana, the road built along the Bay of Naples during the Roman Empire.

The gangsters had just killed an arcade owner. Now they were hunting an African drug dealer.

Bulky in bulletproof vests, they scanned the dim main drag of this no man’s land by the sea, a 16-mile strip of a town where Naples blends with Nigeria. They saw African prostitutes wearing miniskirts and multicolored braids, a wild night parade of silhouettes posing, strutting, staggering in search of a few euros. The sedan passed storefront churches, neon motel signs and garbage-strewn lots. It stopped at a low white structure housing Ob-Ob Exotic Fashions.

The drug dealer wasn’t there. But the gunmen opened up anyway, strafing a group of Ghanaians at the store with an AK-47 assault rifle and semiautomatic pistols. Then they fled to a squalid hide-out and celebrated with lobster and champagne, leaving behind six people dead, one wounded and an uproar that spread across Italy.

The killings in September, recounted in interviews by senior antimafia officials, were gory evidence of conflict between the Neapolitan mafia, known as the Camorra, and Nigerian gangsters who play a growing role in Italy’s drug and prostitution rackets.

This landscape of change and fear has been shaped by a singular juxtaposition: One of Europe’s biggest concentrations of African immigrants has risen in the heart of Camorra turf.

“After the shooting, my wife said: ‘Let’s pack and leave this place,’” said Nsangu “Sammi” Kagutta, a Tanzanian father of three who owns a nearby Internet centre. “They were just poor people trying to get their daily bread. If it was about drugs, they shot the wrong people.”

Most of the victims were illegal immigrant labourers, though one or two may have been low-level drug pushers, investigators say. The fusillade of 130 bullets was apparently an indiscriminate message from a Camorra clan aimed at terrifying its junior partners into obedience.

“It was not about racism at all,” said Jean-Rene Bilongo, a community mediator from Cameroon who speaks French, English and Italian with the broad Neapolitan accent. “It was about business.”

Nigerian gangsters have made Castel Volturno a European headquarters. In the 1990s, demand boomed here for African prostitutes — prosecutors call it “the Naomi Campbell phenomenon.” Camorra clans “rented” turf to Nigerian pimps, a line of work that Neapolitan gangsters disdain.

And as cocaine flows increasingly to Europe through West Africa, Nigerians have graduated from their previous role as smuggling “mules” and pay the Camorra for a cut of street trafficking action.

“The Camorra worked well with the Nigerians at first,” said Antonio Laudati, a top Justice Ministry official who led a major prosecution of the Nigerian mafia last year. “They were low-cost labor. They were well-received because they were cheap and very loyal. But then the Nigerians started to rise to a new level.”

That coincided with the disarray of the region’s dominant clan from the nearby town of Casal di Principe. As older Casalesi bosses went to prison, a new generation of swaggering, hard-partying gunslingers stepped up. During the last year, they embarked on a punitive campaign against Italian turncoats and foreign rivals, killing nine people.

Those deaths were in addition to the violence on Sept. 18, which came about because the Casalesi gunmen were looking for an African drug dealer who had crossed them, said a senior antimafia official who requested anonymity for security reasons. They gunned down a mob-connected Italian they suspected of protecting the African, then attacked the clothing shop in a drug-fueled frenzy, officials say.

“Behind the massacre is a question of territory,” Laudati said. “They were killed in a symbolic manner. It was an ethnic warning to rebellious Africans. This is a new reality, a work in progress, and we are trying to figure it out.”

Since the killings, the government in Rome has cracked down, arresting suspects and deploying 500 soldiers in the region. Local leaders want Italians and immigrants to work together against an entrenched outlaw culture.

In Castel Volturno and elsewhere in southern Europe where crime, immigration and economic crisis converge, an uncertain future is under construction.

“We need to deal with the social problems, and not just using the police,” said Mayor Francesco Nuzzo, who estimates there are 15,000 undocumented immigrants here. “This is a world. There are 50 different ethnicities in Castel Volturno.”

The faded stucco motels on the Via Domitiana are relics from 30 years ago, when the town aspired to become a tourism capital. Instead, the pollution and helter-skelter architecture attest to neglect and rapacity. Camorra clans got rich off the unlicensed construction of vacation complexes, concrete monstrosities that served as refuge for victims of the Naples earthquake in 1980, then an influx of immigrants.

Africans first came to work in tomato fields made bountiful by the climate of the Caserta region and subsidies from the European Union. In recent years, many arrived on a new flow of ragged smuggling flotillas from Libya to Sicily.

Like the fugitive local gangsters who dodge police for years in the mob-dominated towns north of Naples, newcomers find this a good place to lie low.

“It attracts illegal immigrants because there is a generalized culture of lawlessness,” the senior antimafia official said. “People don’t pay taxes, they build illegally, they dump garbage illegally, they buy contraband, they work off the books. People in this part of Italy have a problem with rules.”

But jobs are scarce. Employers prefer Eastern Europeans to work in hotels and South Asians to clean up after the herds of buffalo whose milk is used to produce the region’s acclaimed mozzarella.

Hard times may have aggravated the extraordinary reaction the day after the killings. A march by Africans erupted into a riot on the Via Domitiana. They vandalized cars and shops and scuffled with police. In response, there was an anti-immigrant demonstration that Mayor Nuzzo blames partly on manipulation by the Camorra.

More trauma came in early November. Local governments invited Miriam Makeba, a beloved South African singer, to a benefit concert here. The idea was to defy the Camorra and promote tolerance. The 76-year-old performed, but suffered a heart attack and died backstage.

“It was very sad,” said Kagutta, the Tanzanian businessman, who met Makeba before the concert. “She seemed a little frail, not healthy. But she talked and sang normally. She was dancing on stage. What a very bad day.”

In an immigrant community bereft of leaders, the quiet Kagutta, 42, has made a mark. Dressed casually but carefully, he talks over an espresso in a glass-walled office at the back of his Internet shop. The place seems an oasis: well-kept, rows of modern computers, signs announcing DHL delivery service and computer repairs.

On the night of the killings, Kagutta rushed to the area with other Africans. He saw the dead, some of them men he knew, sprawled in the store and a bullet-shredded Alfa Romeo.

Fear spread. Several African businesses shut their doors. Nonetheless, Kagutta said, the quick response of Italian law enforcement reassured him. He said he also had good experiences since he arrived here in his late 20s, a laborer with dreams of opening a business.

“There are people who give you a hand,” he said. “I have an Italian friend who is my brother. He says that and he means it, with no self-interest.”

The nationwide attention to Castel Volturno could have a positive result, he said.

“I think right now there is more understanding,” he said. “The door of integration will be more open.”

http://thepmnews.com/2009/01/08/nigerian-gangsters-get-a-foothold-in-a-violent-italian-landscape


Yet another, of the numerous escapades from a few Nigerians off shore that are bent on tarnishing the image of others

Nejuya:
Cathleen, Caitlin, Cristian, Christian, Chelsie, Chrystal, Crista, Crystal - I think one of these name would  be very nice for your baby girl.

Just change the spelling around, but give her a name she would be proud of instead of being teased about okay.

God Bless and let me know what you decide to name your baby girl.

Nejuya   

How could you give these options to someone looking for Igbo names?

I have some more

Chinaecherem (God thinks for me) my friend's daughter has this name
Chigozie
Chimaobim

landis:
this guy is bad news, does he think EU asylum is just for unserious people??

I am glad he is not allowed to abuse asylum for REAL people that needs it.

added, he should have gone to UK with enough MONEY, the brits just love our money.

Couldn't have said it better

Wonders they say never end, This is Stranger than fiction !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm in shock I mean total shock!!!!!!

Just hope justice will prevail not minding whose ox is gored. Period.
After all what do we have to show for almost two years.

@Lucabrasi may be you should read this;

No fewer than three corps members, according to the Lagos state coordinator of the scheme, Mr. Anthony Ani, lost their lives in the mayhem. Ani, who confirmed this when he paid a condolence visit to the parents of one of the corps member killed, Ibukun Akinjogbin, at Meiran in Lagos, promised that NYSC would take care of the burial expenses of the deceased.

Apart from the three youth corps members officially confirmed dead by the authorities, P.M.News gathered many others are still missing. Following the wanton killing of corps members by the rioters, their parents have launched a mobilisation campaign for the cancellation of the scheme.

Firing the first salvo was Mr. Akintola Tokunbo Akinjogbin, father of Ibukun Akinjogbin, a corps member butchered in the Jos riots. “I don’t understand why the Nigerian government should subject our children to death on an annual basis. Every year, youth corps members die in their numbers. The government should please scrap this programme.

“Parents would have laboured to educate their children and in the process of doing their youth service, those children will die. This is very unfair,” Akinjogbin stated.

Another parent, a professor at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, in a text message to P.M.News, called on parents to come together and tell the government to cancel the NYSC scheme.

The professor who said he lost his 28-year-old nephew in the crisis, stated: “Dear parents, the recent Jos crisis claimed the lives of several NYSC members, including our 28-year-old nephew.

“He was butchered in cold blood along with two others corps members in their house, for no reason. No parent should go through such sorrow. Please, join the campaign for the abrogation of NYSC. Enough is enough. Do not wait until your child is wasted.”

The professor called on recipients of the message to send it to five other parents. Another parent, who identified himself as Mr. Odusole, also called for the scrapping of the NYSC scheme. In his message, he disclosed that he lost his 21-year-old son, Tola Odusole, who was to complete his NYSC in February, in the Jos killings.

“He was slaughtered in cold blood along with Leke and Ibukun,” he added. P.M.News learnt that many parents have received this message and have been passing it to others.

Parents with children serving under the scheme, investigations revealed, have sent letters to the NYSC Director-General, Maj.-Gen. Yusuf Bomoi, expressing their desire for the cancellation of the scheme. I[b]t was gathered that parents with children posted to states close to Plateau have asked their children to come home for fear that the crisis might spread to the states.[/b]

Most of the corps members who spoke with P.M.News, at the Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, orientation camp of the NYSC, also supported their parents. They said there was no need sending them to states where they would be slaughtered by rioters or religious fundamentalists. Some of them said they preferred being posted to the southern states instead of the northern ones which are prone to religious and communal riots.

http://thepmnews.com/2008/12/03/cancel-nysc-parents-mount-campaign

lucabrasi:
@poster
while this is a really sad occurence,i think your heading is highly misleading,this is only happening in a section of nigeria and nysc members are not being targeted and killed off indiscriminately like your post has inferred, however addressing the post, i reckon corpers shouldnt be sent to the hot spots or potentially volatile areas for the time being,

I have to restrict my response to your post on the ones that concern me. Having said that permit me to say that you are obviously not abreast with happenings in Nigeria cos if you are I guess your opinion would have been different. Just consider these; why were those guys in Jos? Do you think a corper will know a city so well in two months as to know where to hide? Remember how young people come out of school this days. Just read more about Nigeria you'll agree that they are indeed the endangered ones especially when there is conflict.

The greatest problem corpers have whenever this hing occur is that they barely
know the terrain to even know where to run to when such thing happens. This
reminds me of a chilling experience I had in a cab among our other country men
travelling from Kano to Jos. All the discussion in the vehicle was nothing but hate,
they were alledging that Southerners hate them with particular referrence to Orkar's
failed coup of 1990 or which year now? They said that Orkar is from Awka, they talked
about being harrased in all the suthern states that time. You can immagine how scared
I was through the more than four hours journey to Jos with two stops for prayers.

Everton striker Ayegbeni Yakubu has been ruled out for the rest of the season after rupturing his Achilles.

Toffees manager David Moyes confirmed the injury after watching his side win 1-0 at Tottenham.

Nigeria international Yakubu lasted just 11 minutes before hobbling down the tunnel after coming off second-best in a challenge with Ledley King.

Moyes also indicated Louis Saha - only recently returned from injury - could miss a significant period of time with an injured hamstring.

Moyes said: "The victory has hit us really hard."


http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/30112008/58/premier-league-season-ending-injury-yakubu.html

Happenings in Nigeria today should concern every right thinking adult.
Or how else can you explain this waste of the nations youth because of an
election that they have nothing to do with.

I was distraught reading these news report from Jos;

The gloom that pervaded the Lagos State Low Cost Housing Estate, Meiran, Ojokoro, Lagos, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Akintola Tokunbo Akinjogbin, yesterday can be felt with touch. The woman, emotionally broken, laid on the bed while female members of her family and friends sat around to share in her grief. Her eyes bore the image of a woman that is wearied from shedding excessively painful tears.

The second son of the family, young Mr. Ibukun Oluwatosin Akinjogbin, 23, was one of the fifty people whose lives were brought to a cruel end by the rampaging voters in Jos on Friday morning. He was killed along with his nephew, Mr. Leke Akande, 23, and a friend, Mr. Tola Odusola, 20, all youth corps members, in the home of Ibukun’s uncle, Mr. Bisi Akinjogbin, an Abuja-based businessman. The hatchet men, who broke down the high gates and stormed the residence along Katako Junction by 7Up depot in Jos about 9.15am on Friday morning; caught down the three young men in the presence of Mrs. Doyin Akinjogbin, the uncle’s wife while her daughters also watched in horror.

Mrs. Doyin Akinjogbin is already placed under sedation as a result of the shock she suffered from witnessing the killings of the young men in her home.

The three men were among the scores of youths doing their one year mandatory youth service scheme in Pankshin, Jos central, in Plateau State, till they were killed.

Riot had broken out in Jos on Thursday, due to attempted manipulations with the results of the local government polls. The election was said to have been widely won by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), candidate.

Mr. Akintola Akinjogbin, who seemed to be taking the incidence with calmness, said the killing of his son is "barbaric, satanic and uncalled for."

One of the three youth corps members, Ibukun Oluwatosin Akinjogbin, a 2001 to 2003 Quantity Surveyor student from the Obafemi Awolowo (OAU), Ife, was said to have been in contact with his family on phone up till the last minute that life was ebbed out of him.

According to the father while narrating the gory ordeal, Ibukun was about coming to Lagos when the incident caught up with him without prior warning. He said prior to that day, the late young Akinjogbin had finalised plans to visit Lagos after a while.

He said: "My son had reported for the NYSC on August 26, 2008. We were in constant touch with him because mine is a very closely knit family. He would have actually returned to Lagos on Thursday but could not because it was rather late. So, I called him around 6. 20a.m on Friday morning and he said he was on his way to the park. Then later, he called that he was going back to his uncle’s home because the riot going on in Jos was quite heated. I said it was a good decision. So, he ran back into the house and we remained in touch.

"From that time, there were several calls and it was as if he was giving us situational reports. Then, his elder brother, Kayode Akinjogbin, an Investment Analyst with Lead Capital in Lagos, took over from me and kept monitoring his brother."

Speaking, Kayode said Ibukun started asking for prayers. "Please start praying for us’’; he had begged. "They are moving towards our side of the town. In fact, they seem to be getting close to our gate. Please pray Bro. Kayode. They are outside our house now. I don’t know why they came to us but they are here," Ibukun was reported to have said.

"Now, our gates are down," were the last direct words the young man could say to me, said Kayode. "Then I started hearing him beg them. Later there seemed to be some struggles but my younger brother was still pleading. Then, I heard cries and I was afraid while at the same time shouting his name. I heard the voices of women screaming and praying to God for help. For some time, everything seemed to get silent but by this time, I was almost running crazy when my colleagues in the office grabbed my phone from me to calm me down.

"A few minutes later, after I had regained my composure, I picked my phone to call my younger brother. But it was a Hausa man that replied me. And he said in Hausa tone and seemed to be mocking at the same time: ‘Ya broad, I'm dey die, I'm det die…hHa ha, now, I'm don die’. And at that point, the phone went dead. And that was when I blacked out too," Kayode said.

Akinjogbin senior said his son had come to the Uncle’s house because of the visit to Lagos. "The uncle is like their father over there. They all go to his house whenever there is need. Ibukun served as a Works Officer with the Pankshin Local Government council because he was a Quantity Surveyor. But what can I do now than to throw my hands up to God and accept my fate?

"My concern however is why the Nigerian government should subject our children to death on annual basis? Every year, Youth Corpers die in their numbers. The government should please scrap this programme. Parents would have laboured to educate their children and in the process of doing the youth service, those children will die. This is very unfair," Akinjogbin said.

"Ibukun was a core gentleman. He was very quiet and easy-going. Everyone that ever dealt with him knew that. And how can a people kill such a young man? Nigeria is one country and we should all learn to accommodate one another regardless of religious differences. As a matter of fact, how does a political riot change to religious fight? This is why government must tame these people up North. They can’t just be killing innocent people and go scot-free all the time. If they have been dealt with in time past, they wouldn’t have done it again. For me, the NYSC stuff is a bad taste that has left a traumatic mark in my family. I just pray God to grant my wife the grace to bear the incident with calm equanimity.

Kayode also described late Ibukun as a promising, enterprising and diligent and gentle young man that everybody said something good about in his life time. "Rather than brawl, Ibukun will usually hold his peace over any issue. Sadly now, he has been caught off in his prime with his hopes and aspirations all gone with him."

In another instance, a young youth corps member, Mr. Gesham Jagboro, 26, a graduate of Geology from the Federal University of Technology, Akura (FUTA), was reported dead in an automobile accident in Lokoja, while returning from Jos where they had gone to attend a Christian conference, last weekend. According to family members, young Jagboro was among the few corps members chosen by his team of corps members to represent them at the programme.

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sweet mama:
hello lady, getting out of the marriage is not the right choice as far as I'm concern, just stay and talk things out with him, and pray hard he will change some day.

People are always eager to push you when you tell them that you want to jump, but I seriously counsel you to consider the advice quoted above. No situation is irredeemable if you work at it.

Oil Price, Nigerian Economy and the Masses.

I hadly could immagine that anyone will contradict 'Kobo' on this matter.
The views shared by 'Kobo' so far on the issue cann't be better said. Just
before 1999, oil sold for less than 18usd and Nigera had a few billions of
dollars in our reserve then. By late 1999/2000 the boom came and from
that time till date nothing positive to show neither in the living standard
of ordinary man nor our infrastructural development. Today oil still sales
for more than 45usd and we are complaining.

So I don't see drop in oil price affecting anything at all,  any state that
want to develop just like lagos is doing will develop period. Alternatively,
if all that interest their chief executive is to line his pocket with state
treasury good luck to them.

France Football report that France international Gallas, 31, has been dropped by Gunners manager Arsene Wenger after revealing comments the defender made about disharmony within the squad.

The respected news source also claims that either goalkeeper Manuel Almunia or full-back Gael Clichy will captain the side at the City of Manchester Stadium.

Full story go to;
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/21112008/58/premier-league-gallas-dropped-stripped-captaincy.html

In a BBC sport news this evening, Arsenal Captain, William Gallas has been stripped of the
Captain hand band and he will miss their clash with Man City tomorrow. If you ask me I will
blame it on his mouth, how can you come out and criticize people that are by far better than
yourself.

[quote author=Mad_Max link=topic=122451.msg3098163#msg3098163 date=1226920770]Separation such as yours confers a dangerous freedom: the safety of marriage and the perks of being single. Are you romantically involved with someone at your end, and does your husband suspect that's the case? I'll take it your husband isn't a slowpoke,because only a painfully insecure,incomprehensibly unreasonable man would cut off the sole means of support to a lot of people,himself and a child included. A jealous, threatened husband,on the other hand, is capable of danming the consequences,merely to have you where he may keep an eye on you. I doubt he sprung an ultimatum on you out of the blue. You've probably been at this 'come back home' issue a while.

5 years is a long time. You've made a life for yourself and your child,and naturally don't want to give that up. And why should you? But if you've given your husband cause to suspect infidelity,end the illicit relationship and commit yourself to your marriage. If you're not cheating, then perhaps you've developed an attitude,being the breadwinner, and left him out of things, and he's been feeling helpless and ashamed for years, and this is his mule-headed way of taking charge, of wresting control from you. For all their macho posturing,men are sensitive,emotional creatures. If that's the case, immediately start involving him fully in your life and the life of your child,seeking his advice and opinion,involving him in decision-making,exactly as if he were there with you. You seem to have this really old-school kind of relationship. You may even make up something outrageous you intend to do, which you have no intention of following up on,just to give him the satisfaction of putting his foot down while you meekly agree.

The child is the important person here. He should be where the best opportunities are. People leave their jobs AFTER they're issued travel papers,not BEFORE,so I don't understand how your husband can be unemployed and remain so, for five years. It's not typical of our men. Perhaps you're not telling the whole story here. He should get a job.Or you may assist him in starting a small business of his own,if you can. Eventually,he may join you both.

Distance strains relationships,but people cope as best as they can. Good luck.[/quote]This is the most encouraging response I've seen on this thread Mad_max may God bless you richly. Great words I mean great words!!!!!!!!!!!

dazangel11:

Good thinking brother.

Just yesterday Parley was appointed as SSG I am sure u all know him. For those of you who do not know him he was a past LG chairman. Men that guy no do one thing for him area.

Change is usually the most difficult thing in life. I see your concerns as Edo indigenes but my advice is let's give him some time to proove himself. Don't forget that the majority of Edo voters voted massively for in April 2007. Some thing makes me feel that Adams will perform

Younger guns started where the other gunners stopped by ripping wigan open with three unreplied goals.

You know what i think, you are either a naval officer yourself or a confessed apologist period!

Congratulation Nigerians and all the people of Edo State of Nigeria.
Oshiomhole now governor of Edo State.

Oshiomhole wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!