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Those insulting the first commenter for correcting the OP aren't doing him/her a favour, this error could have cost him/her a lot more if this error was done in an official writing. The error was even done by someone publishing book for children.SMH

This was the same look Chadwick Boseman had before he died, many said all sorts about him not knowing what he was going through. It's important that we don't hide behind our keyboards to say hurtful things to someone without knowing what he/she is going through

Aflix:
So, most of the artists are not actually rich. The record label provides all they need for them to show off. Little wonders these black artists like wearing expensive jewelleries.

True!!! It's actually the record labels who owns the actual numbers (money), most of the numbers by Forbes are just figureheads

Odunolumide:
West might be mental but what he is fighting for most people won't understand. If he succeeds it will be a win for all black artist.

It seems only you got the message he was trying to pass, most people just read the headline and comment based on what they read. He's actually fighting for a good cause and it's sad that this is what most artistes go through behind all the fame.

Using documents provided by Edward Snowden, the French paper reports that Britain spied on more than 20 current and former African heads of state.
TOP-SECRET BRITISH SURVEILLANCE operations targeted the director of the World Trade Organization, several multinational corporations, a top French businessman, and heads of state across Africa, according to a new series of reports by Le Monde.
On Tuesday, the French newspaper began publishing the revelations, which include a wide range of previously undisclosed details about British covert activities across the world. The reports were produced in partnership with The Intercept and are based on documents provided by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The series of stories focuses largely on the controversial work of the U.K.’s electronic surveillance agency Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. According to Le Monde, in March 2009, the British agency spied on Pascal Lamy, then the head of the World Trade Organization and member of the French socialist party. Between 2008 and 2009, it also targeted Octave Klaba, the founder of the French company OVH, one of Europe’s largest internet hosting companies; Emmanuel Glimet, a French trade and economy official; phone lines at the French ministry of foreign affairs; and several multinational French corporations, including the energy company Areva, oil giant Total, and the defense conglomerate Thalès.
Beyond France, the disclosures highlight the U.K.’s extensive spying operations across Africa. In 20 countries across the continent, GCHQ monitored current and former heads of state, prime ministers, diplomats, military and intelligence chiefs, as well as leading figures in the business and finance industry, Le Monde reports. Among those who were subject to the surveillance, which involved intercepting communications as they were being beamed between satellites, was a close British ally — Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and his strategic advisers. Other targets included Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua and his private secretary; Ghana’s President John Kufuor; Sierra Leone’s leader Ernest Koroma; and the presidential palace in Luanda, Angola. Prominent business figures were also monitored, such as Nigerian billionaire Tony Elumelu, regarded as one of Africa’s richest and most influential men, and Chris Kirubi, a wealthy Kenyan businessman and radio-station owner who was described by Forbes in 2011 as the country’s “most flamboyant tycoon.”
But not all of the people on the surveillance lists were high-flying corporate and political elites. Le Monde reports that GCHQ spied on the employees of two major telecommunications companies — the South African firm MTN and Kuwait-based Zain. The agency focused in particular on “roaming managers” working for the companies in at least 15 African countries, including Gabon, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Congo, and Mali. Roaming managers who work for cellphone companies organize partnerships between different carriers across the world, ensuring that when you travel overseas on vacation or a business trip you can use your phone to connect to a local network and make calls and receive messages.
Often, roaming managers handle sensitive technical documents about how different networks function — and this is what places them on the radar of both GCHQ and its close U.S. counterpart, the NSA. Such documents are of high value to the agencies, as they contain information that they can use to hack into networks and eavesdrop on communications. As The Intercept has previously reported, the NSA systematically monitors telco company employees’ emails with the explicit purpose of collecting roaming documents, which it describes as “necessary for targeting and exploitation.” In other words, roaming managers are not spied on because they are suspected of wrongdoing or because they are of political or economic interest; rather, they are merely viewed as a means to an end.
GCHQ declined to answer any questions from Le Monde, citing a long-standing policy not to comment on intelligence matters. A spokesperson for the agency claimed in a statement that its activities are all “authorised, necessary and proportionate” and “entirely compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.” The NSA said its activities complied with U.S. law and policy and declined to comment further.

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/08/gchq-africa-wto-corporations-surveillance/

martineverest:
china is ruthless

Yes, but let's not forget that the US sometimes exaggerate the "ruthlessness" of China as a propaganda, thereby enforcing it in the subconscious of most people who follow US media religiously. This is not to downplay the way China behaves

dario078:
The relationship US has with the UK is more than just trade. Have you heard about ''The 5 Eye"? Google it.

The truth is, there is a law that compels Chinese companies to spy for the Chinese govt on request.

The US isn't just paranoid.

True, US and UK are deeply tied together beyond what most people know. But check this out

martineverest:
true...they are all spying but America is a democratic Spies,which is better than autocratic Chinese spies

What do you mean by "Democratic spy" and "autocratic spy"?

martineverest:
UK is obviously trying to please USA for sweet trade deal as they are leaving EU and also a retaliation towards Chinese government attitude towards Hong Kong


anyways,it serves china right....they were infiltrating the world with their spyware

I agree with you but US also infiltrates with their spyware, See the pictures below, it's from a book by Glenn Greenwald in reference to some leaked classified US documents by Edward Snowden

All these ceremony because of TWO trucks shows how low or values have become. Although it's commendable that FG donated these trucks to them, I can't just wrap my head around the fact that they had to organise a ceremony for TWO trucks, they should cover their face in shame

hammer3:
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U DID NOT COMPLAIN ALL THIS YEARS, NOW PDP HAS TAKEN EDO FROM APC, U WANT TO BE INDIA.


U ARE PATHETIC.

Gosh!!! I'm tempted to start explaining what I wrote to you word by word but I'm convinced that you still understand.

bigiyaro:
what did the law specify?

Paragraph 2 of the 10th Schedule lays down the grounds for defection.

It states that members who do the following will lose their membership any House (which could be at the Centre or in a State) if they:

Voluntary resign from their political party from which they have been elected
Vote against the direction of their political party (in legislature)
Does not vote/abstain from voting (in legislature) despite having a direction to vote from their party.
2. and 3. do not apply if the member has prior permission from his/her party or the party condones the member's action within 15 days of the voting.

Members independent of any political party will lose their membership if they join one after their election to legislature.

Nominated members will lose their membership if they join a party within 6 months of their nomination to legislature.
You could read more on it sha

hammer3:
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U ARE AN ENEMY UNTO YOURSELF.


U SAW THE UNJUST WAY, EVEN UNLAW TO THE POINT OF CRIMINAL, THEY DEPRIVE A SEATING GOV FROM EVEN CONTESTING, NOW U ARE WISHING U WERE INDIA.

Why do you want to display your inept mentality here, I won't haggle words with you. Let others who can comprehend what was written above contribute. Abeg shift to one side.

A usual occurrence in the Nigerian political sphere is the incessant defection of politicians from one political party to another. The recent one is the ongoing drama in Edo state over the defection of Gov. Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu.
My curiosity led me to an astonishing law in India, The Anti-Defection Law technically the Tenth Schedule to the Indian Constitution, was enacted in 1985 to address the perceived problem of instability caused by democratically elected legislators in India's federal system of government shifting allegiance from the parties they supported at the time of election, or disobeying their parties' decisions at critical times such as during voting on an important resolution.
Such shifting of allegiance was considered to be a symptom of endemic political corruption, which in turn provided some legitimisation for corruption prevalent in other aspects of life in the country.
Prior to introduction of the anti-defection law, both the central Government of India and the governments of some of its states and territories had experienced instances of perceived instability resulting from legislators changing their political allegiance. By one estimate, almost 50 per cent of the 4,000 legislators elected to central and federal parliaments in the 1967 and 1971 general elections subsequently defected, leading to political turmoil in the country.
So, should Nigeria replicate such law too?

He tried to exercise his faith. Who am I to judge him

ernieboy:
what yardstick dolid u is to rate Lagos business school above unizik business school, is there a published ranking u can reference or u are just assuming?

https://nigerianinfopedia.com.ng/top-5-business-schools-in-nigeria/
https://eduniversal-ranking.com/business-school-university-ranking-in-nigeria.html
https://gbsn.org/top-10-business-schools-in-africa/
Lagos Business School, as I found out is the best in Africa. I'll direct your question back to you, COULD YOU PLEASE REFERENCE A PUBLISHED RANKING SUPPORTING YOUR CLAIM?

ANSMEDIA:
UNIZIK business school. The best in Nigeria

Have you heard of Lagos Business School (LBS)? Pls get your facts right before making unverifiable claims.

FloxySmart:
A simulator can help imitate or create an artificial representation of a particular situation ,event or even a machine. So I guess it’s probably bought to train our pilots. Go and read about it, you’d like it

Thank you for clarifying, it's obvious that most people are very ignorant. Instead of finding out what a simulator is, that person just decided to display his ignorance to the world

I saw the article below by the BBC, although it happened in 2014, I'm shocked at how low the US can stoop in keeping her global dominance.

Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the CIA, left the US in late May after leaking to the media details of extensive internet and phone surveillance by American intelligence. Mr Snowden, who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, faces espionage charges over his actions.
As the scandal widens, BBC News looks at the leaks that brought US spying activities to light.
US spy agency 'collects phone records'
The scandal broke in early June 2013 when the Guardian newspaper reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans.
The paper published the secret court order directing telecommunications company Verizon to hand over all its telephone data to the NSA on an "ongoing daily basis".
That report was followed by revelations in both the Washington Post and Guardian that the NSA tapped directly into the servers of nine internet firms, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, to track online communication in a surveillance programme known as Prism.
Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency GCHQ was also accused of gathering information on the online companies via Prism.
Shortly afterwards, the Guardian revealed that ex-CIA systems analyst Edward Snowden was behind the leaks about the US and UK surveillance programmes.
He has been charged in the US with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence.
UK spy agency 'taps fibre-optic cables'
The GCHQ scandal widened on 21 June when the Guardian reported that the UK spy agency was tapping fibre-optic cables that carry global communications and sharing vast amounts of data with the NSA, its US counterpart.
The paper revealed it had obtained documents from Edward Snowden showing that the GCHQ operation, codenamed Tempora, had been running for 18 months.
GCHQ was able to boast a larger collection of data than the US, tapping into 200 fibre-optic cables to give it the ability to monitor up to 600 million communications every day, according to the report.
The information from internet and phone use was allegedly stored for up to 30 days to be sifted and analysed.
Although GCHQ did not break the law, the Guardian suggested that the existing legislation was being very broadly applied to allow such a large volume of data to be collected.
GCHQ and NSA eavesdropping on Italian phone calls and internet traffic was reported by the Italian weekly L'Espresso on 24 October. The revelations were sourced to Edward Snowden.
It is alleged that three undersea cables with terminals in Italy were targeted. Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta called the allegations "inconceivable and unacceptable" and said he wanted to establish the truth.
US 'hacks China networks'
After fleeing to Hong Kong, Edward Snowden told the South China Morning Post that the NSA had led more than 61,000 hacking operations worldwide, including many in Hong Kong and mainland China.
He said targets in Hong Kong included the Chinese University, public officials and businesses.
"We hack network backbones - like huge internet routers, basically - that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one," Mr Snowden was quoted as saying.
EU offices 'bugged'
Claims emerged on 29 June that the NSA had also spied on European Union offices in the US and Europe, according to
Germany's Der Spiegel magazine.
The magazine said it had seen leaked NSA documents showing that the US had spied on EU internal computer networks in Washington and at the 27-member bloc's UN office in New York.
The paper added that it had been shown the "top secret" files by Edward Snowden.
One document dated September 2010 explicitly named the EU representation at the UN as a "location target", Der Spiegel wrote.
The files allegedly suggested that the NSA had also conducted an electronic eavesdropping operation in a building in Brussels, where the EU Council of Ministers and the European Council were located.
It is not known what information US spies might have obtained. But observers say details of European positions on trade and military matters could be useful to those involved in US-EU negotiations.
Merkel phone calls 'intercepted'
The German government summoned the US ambassador on 24 October - a very unusual step - after German media reported that the NSA had eavesdropped on Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone.
The allegations dominated an EU summit, with Mrs Merkel demanding a full explanation and warning that trust between allies could be undermined. She discussed the matter by phone with US President Barack Obama. He assured her that her calls were not being monitored now and that it would not happen in future. But the White House did not deny bugging her phone in the past.
Past surveillance by secret police - whether Nazi or communist - has made Germans very sensitive about privacy issues. Mrs Merkel grew up in the former East Germany, where the Stasi spied on millions of citizens.
France's President Francois Hollande meanwhile expressed alarm at reports that millions of French calls had been monitored by the US.
The Guardian later reported that the NSA had monitored the phones of 35 world leaders after being given their numbers by another US government official. Again, Edward Snowden was the source of the report.
Embassies 'under surveillance'
A total of 38 embassies and missions have been the "targets" of US spying operations, according to a secret file leaked to the Guardian.
Countries targeted included France, Italy and Greece, as well as America's non-European allies such as Japan, South Korea and India, the paper reported on 1 July.
EU embassies and missions in New York and Washington were also said to be under surveillance.
The file allegedly detailed "an extraordinary range" of spying methods used to intercept messages, including bugs, specialised antennae and wire taps.
The Guardian report also mentioned codenames of alleged operations against the French and Greek missions to the UN, as well as the Italian embassy in Washington.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said that activities to protect national security were "not unusual" in international relations.
Latin America 'monitored'
US allies in Latin America were angered by revelations in Brazil's O Globo newspaper on 10 July that the NSA ran a continent-wide surveillance programme .
The paper cited leaked documents showing that, at least until 2002, the NSA ran the operation from a base in Brasilia, seizing web traffic and details of phone calls from around the region.
US agents apparently joined forces with Brazilian telecoms firms to snoop on oil and energy firms, foreign visitors to Brazil, and major players in Mexico's drug wars.
Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Chile all demanded answers from the US.
But the revelations on Latin America kept coming, and in September more specific claims emerged that emails and phone calls of the presidents of Mexico and Brazil had been intercepted.
Also, the US had been spying on Brazil's state-owned oil firm Petrobras.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff cancelled a state visit to the US in the most high-profile diplomatic move since the scandal hit.
SMS messages 'collected and stored'
In January 2014, the Guardian newspaper and Channel 4 News reported that the US had collected and stored almost 200 million text messages per day across the globe.
A National Security Agency (NSA) program is said to have extracted and stored data from the SMS messages to gather location information, contacts and financial data.
The documents also revealed that GCHQ had used the NSA database to search for information on people in the UK.
The programme, Dishfire, analyses SMS messages to extract information including contacts from missed call alerts, location from roaming and travel alerts, financial information from bank alerts and payments and names from electronic business cards, according to the report.
Through the vast database, which was in use at least as late as 2012, the NSA gained information on those who were not specifically targeted or under suspicion, the report says.

OP, you could have said it's only "male artistes", since you didn't put any female artiste there

motherlode:
The institute might be responsible for the picture displayed and not necessarily the governor himself.

Yea, but it's becoming too much.

Most people would be surprised when they realise that they built their houses on places allocated for road

Must these politicians always put their picture on everything? On top one machine, you put picture again?

It could be that he doesn't trust those around him enough to make them commissioners. Only him knows best.
But on a second thought, if he chooses his commissioners immediately after inauguration and they flop, he'll be blamed. If he takes his time to get the best hands on deck, he'll also be faulted for wasting time.
It's up to him to do what's best sha

frozen70:
I think its best you over look them and start planning on how to build your future while is a enjoying her lazy life

You may not know what your mum promised while searching for pregnancy or what made her to give her is useless support

Be yourself and over look them if possible so that you can find your bearing and pack out

Leave both of them, at the end it's either she regrets or get rewarded

Thank you so much

AnonymousRebec:
I can totally relate to this story. My parents are kind of scared of my elder brother and they don't send him any message. He is the first born. But they want to kill me and my two younger siblings with all the house chores. We have complained many times to my mum but her excuse is that he is the first born. Then we start wondering if because he is the first born, he should not lift a pin.

Sometimes if it is only my parents and my brother at home, just know that my mum will do all the work by herself or send him on very few errands. Then she will call us on the phone and be telling us that she is tired. And in my mind I'm like wetin concern me, shebi you get son you can send, why are you doing everything by yourself. But if it is another child, they will not let somebody rest.

Anyway, long story short, we have gotten used to it. My mum normally beg us not to be angry. The issue is that they are scared of him, and myself and my two younger ones have noticed. Sometimes we come out straight to ask my parents if they are scared of him, and they say that they don't want him to get angry because my brother has anger issues sometimes. He collected it from my father. He is all this kind of quiet people that don't talk but the day they are angry, all hell will break loose. Unlike myself and my two younger siblings, we set people straight immediately they get us angry and we are more outspoken.

Now, nobody cares anymore. We do the message we can do and leave the rest. We cannot come and kill ourselves. Everyone now is just planning their lives. Me and my siblings have told my parents to consider getting a young relative that can come and help them because we are gradually moving out of the house.

Thanks for your opinion. It's these kind of toxic parenting that fuels the fire of siblings rivalry.
I'm now seen as the black sheep of the family because I tell my mum to at least let her do little house chores like helping with cooking.

johnkey:
Your sister na set awon barakat, I'm sure she no sleep house last night

Lol, She's not a waka-about

othermen:
Are you concerned out of love for your sister, or concerned about the hatred brewing in you towards her?

The characterization of your sister is likely not objective as you yourself mentioned; it won't be objective or a clear picture of what is occurring if truly you are beginning to despise her. Such emotions also beclouds judgment. Those whom we despise we castigate and those whom we love, we improve.

I will assume you love your sister, and you want the best for her and you see all happening as damaging to her vigour, diligence and virtue. But before you improve another, you must first improve yourself; examine why you have to characterise your mum and your sister's discussion as gossip rather than mere conversation, examine if you complain whenever you are delegated a task, out of sheer laziness on your part; if you see responsibility, or duties you are assigned as torture or suffering, then you must consider improving yourself as well. Also, I learnt something over the years, which is I try to give the best premise I can imagine to people's action. This is an opportunity for you, to nurture and become a better individual; try to convince your siblings that your mother love them more, even when it seems contrary; if you could do that, you are building relationships and nurturing love and kindness in them.

However if you have already done all of the above and more and you are concerned for your sister's wellbeing.

Thanks for your advice. I love her and want the best for her, there are times that I let go of some of my needs just for my parents to meet up with her demands.
I've caught them times without number during their "conversations" insulting me and even saying things that I can't even write here

2special:
But don't harm her o...like what happened in Kaduna

I would never do such thing. Such thought has never occured to me.

My parents have Four children, Two boys and two girls. My sister and I are twins and are the last born. Every since we were young, my mum has always favoured our older sister who is the first born at our detriment. I'm not against the fact that she's my mum's favourite but it's just annoying that my mum does everything to please my older sister, even if it means suffering we the younger ones.

My older sister does nothing in the house and is always on her phone from morning till night (mind you, she's 25). Whenever we complain, she usually hide under the guise of "she's your older sister". Whenever we're sick and we tell our mum, she'll shout at us to tell our dad but if it's my older sister, she gets emotional, crying at every instance.

Only my mum does the cooking even if she's not feeling well and it annoys me. My older sister has become the chairlady of the house.

My other siblings are already fed up but won't say anything.
Even when she wants to get something for personal use, my mum won't allow her go get it herself. My objection to the way my mum treats us has made me the black sheep of the family. My sister and I currently not on talking terms due to my objection to her laziness and surprisingly my mum supports her. They both gossip about us at every opportunity. I don't even know what to do again. How do you advise I deal with this?

eLcastro:
stfu....u think they don't know.....or won't like to.,what if no money at hand currently and they here hoping to get advice from someone that has had such experience before.,who went to a doc....

Mr....No one is arguing with you, maybe it's the situation of the country that's frustrating you.
Many people just suggest home remedies which could cause more harm than good, if their advises backfire, won't they be forced to seek proper medical care? (It's a rhetorical question so don't reply)