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The guy friend dey eye the wife be4, I bet she is a pretty woman or maybe na d young age. lol

A Zimbabwean man lost his wife after wagering her in a football bet.

Charles Jambaya, 26, had pledged his 22-year-old wife Caroline Shumba to another man over the UEFA Champions League final between Real Madrid and Juventus.

Jambaya made a verbal agreement with 30-year-old Eugene Gumbo that if Juventus lose the encounter he would give him his wife, while Gumbo wagered $500 in favour of a Madrid victory.



Hell broke loose when Real Madrid defeated Juventus 4-1 and Eugene requested for his prize (Jambaya’s wife).

The wife, who had no inkling she had been used as a wager in a bet, was stunned when Eugene told her that she had to go with him because he had won her as a prize in a football bet.

She, however, refused to go with Eugene, seeking refuge with her aunt, who took the case to a traditional court.

Jambaya told Chiefs at the Traditional Court he was not in a right state of mind when he made the pledge and he pleaded for mercy.

Both men were fined an animal each.


http://punchng.com/man-loses-22-year-old-wife-to-football-bet/

lovethchioma:
The First to comment poster isn't far from the truth.
Some men now think it is natural for a man to cheat.. Someone will even tell you to prepare your mind because all men cheat. I refuse to believe that trash.... Do you think it's only the men that get tired of sleeping with one woman for the rest of their lives? Don't you know even the women get bored fu**ing one dick for the rest of their lives too? should that now be used as an excuse to cheat on your spouse? that's why I always say it all boils down to self control and commitment to making your relationship work which a lot of persons lack now adays. They prefer to take the easier way out, which is to cheat.
If men will continue sleeping around with other women, what makes you think your woman won't do the same? And if anything happens along the line.. you sure would have to train up another's man child.
How are you sure that as a man all those women you are sleeping with, you have not mistakenly put your seed in one of them and another innocent man is busy training your child too ?
Or doesn't your conscience tells you that those women you've been sleeping with outside your relationship are either somebody's girlfriend, fiancee or wife too?
The level of moral decadence is increasing by the day. Why won't there be chaos in marriages?

It's even the unfaithful once that are busy shouting go for DNA as if it's that easy sef.

The unfaithful men will be blessed with unfaithful women... and if care is not taken you will train up another's man child . Yes... una deserve each other.

If you are a good man don't worry... relax your mind, pray hard, watch carefully, and God will bless you with the right woman who won't give you heart attack.

unfortunately is the good men that get affected most.

nfour4:
How to copy any Whatsapp status (video or picture)
With the latest update on Whatsapp. Another feature has been added to Whatsapp, which is called status.
The status last for 24hours only and after 24hours it will disappear. And when u ask some people to send you the video or picture, you have to answer alot of questions before you get what you want.
These kind of people made me to enback on a research which was very useful to me and that i will share with you now
Step 1
Go to your phone file manager
Step 2
Select all file
Step 3
Look for your Whatsapp folder
Step 4
Select media file
Step 5
Press the option button which is usually 3 dot
Step 6
Select show hidden file
Step 7
You will see statuses file
Open it and look for that picture or video. Copy and paste it to another folder in your media folder.

wic one be 3 dot? cuz I nor see am for my phone oh

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.
They say Qatar backs terrorist groups including Islamic State (IS).
The Saudi state news agency SPA said Riyadh had closed its borders, severing land, sea and air contact with Qatar and largely isolating it.
It cited officials as saying it was to "protect its national security from the dangers of terrorism and extremism".
The unprecedented move is being seen as the most serious split yet between powerful Gulf countries, who are also close US allies.

The row comes two weeks after the same four countries blocked Qatari news sites. Controversial comments by Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, appearing to criticise Saudi Arabia, appeared online.
The government in Doha dismissed the comments as fake, attributing the report to a "shameful cybercrime".

In the latest developments:

The United Arab Emirates has given Qatari diplomats 48 hours to leave the country. Abu Dhabi accuses Doha of "supporting, funding and embracing terrorism, extremism and sectarian organisations," state news agency WAM said

The UAE state airline Etihad Airways said it would suspend all flights to and from Doha from 02:45 local time on Tuesday

Bahrain's state news agency said the country was cutting ties with Qatar because Doha was "shaking the security and stability of Bahrain and meddling in its affairs"

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaking in Sydney, urged the countries to resolve their differences through dialogue.

The Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting Yemen's Houthi rebels also expelled Qatar from its alliance because of Doha's "practices that strengthen terrorism" and its support to groups "including al-Qaeda and Daesh [also known as IS], as well as dealing with the rebel militias", according to SPA.
Qatar has provided its warplanes to carry out air strikes against the Houthi rebels.
Qatar, which is due to host the football World Cup in 2022, has so far made no public comments on the latest developments.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40155829

A man whose son cut off his penis and repeatedly stabbed his mother while high on skunk - a strong strain of cannabis - has spoken exclusively to BBC Radio 5 live about the dangers of the illegal drug.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G71QIKlSmao




http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-40125181/father-skunk-caused-my-son-to-cut-off-his-penis?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

lefulefu:
the average naija babe is sharp,wordly and a go getter .if a naija lady makes up her mind to cheat she will cheat.if u like shout,make threats,or entice her money..na wetin dey her mind she go do.and forget those stuff about sharia cos some of dem in hijabs also dey cut corners wen dem want.they do it codedly with alhajis wen nobody dey look.this A-rab guy is just an azz anyway.sealing his wife"s snail cos she his 12 yr old cousin"s post.if these A-rab guys marry a naija babe na hypertension go jus kill dem.dem too dey damm possesive .

hahahahahahaha.

lefulefu:
in naija dat wont work .if u like put glue or put padlock..the babe dat want to cheat will cheat .if this A-rab guy jam a naija babe he go hail .seems their women are too docile.so me go dey waste time if na glue i dey look for .

You have to consider the environment as well, it'snot easy to cheat in sharia area

wonders shall never end in this world

yarimo:
Pictures and videos could have help this thread better

Are u from another planet? Picture and video from Sharia area? only Facebook like of 12 yrs old boy na 100 lashes of cane

Doha — In a classic case of travesty of justice, a Qatari court fined a husband only 40 Riyal ($10) for sealing his wife’s genitals with crazy glue, but ordered the wife to be lashed 100 times.

The 33-year-old Qatari man was brought forth before the court after his wife was rushed off to the emergency room and suffered medical complications and excruciating pain.

He confessed to the judge that he was guilty of gluing her genitals as he was going on a business trip abroad, believing his wife had adulterous ideas after he found out she had liked a post of his 12-year-old cousin on Facebook.

According to Judge Muhammad Bin Saden of the Qatari court of Justice in Doha, the husband did unjustly bring harm to his wife, although his reasons were “well-intentioned” but put into action in an “awkward way” he said.

Also, the judge pointed out that, after going through the evidence and photos the husband had brought to court, the suffering was in part justified but still decided the woman should be administered 100 lashes as to prevent further “misunderstandings” between her and her husband.

The husband was sentenced to pay 40 Riyal ($10 US dollars) and prevented to use any sort of glue or adhesive on his wife ever again. — Agencies

Source:http://saudigazette.com.sa/world/mena/jealous-qatari-husband-glues-wifes-genitals/

Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, the Red Cross has told the BBC.
The six survivors, all women, walked to a remote village and are being looked after in Dirkou, Niger, Red Cross official Lawal Taher said.
They say several children are among the dead.
The Ghanaians and Nigerians were trying to get to Libya, reports Nigerien news site Sahelien.
So far no-one has visited the site to identify the bodies, Mr Taher added.

The route from Niger to Libya is one of the main ways migrants reach North Africa before crossing the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe.

Crossing the Sahara is one of the most perilous parts of the journey as migrants are crammed into pickup trucks often with only enough room for a few litres of water, reports Reuters news agency.

The unforgiving conditions of the Sahara Desert mean that a broken down vehicle is often a death sentence for migrants.
Niger serves as a transit point for West Africans hoping to reach Europe to start a better life.
Every year, tens of thousands of migrants cross the Sahara to reach Libya. From the Libyan coast they board rickety boats to ferry them to Europe.
Many drown in the Mediterranean but, perhaps, less well known, are the dangers they face while crossing the Sahara.
It's not known how many deaths there are every year - as it's a vast, ungoverned region. But many migrants die of thirst, while others are robbed and attacked by criminal gangs and security forces.

Authorities told Reuters that is it almost impossible to know how many have died in the vast and unpoliced Sahara.
Last June, the bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, were found in the Sahara Desert near Niger's border with Algeria.
It appeared they had died of thirst after being abandoned by their smuggler, a government minister said at the time.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40118370

PORT HARCOURT— About 13 members of Saint Matthew’s Anglican Church, Nkpogu, Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, were, yesterday, arraigned before a state High Court sitting in Port Harcourt over allegations bordering on conspiracy, assault and stealing of over N1 billion belonging to the church.

The 13 suspects, who were arraigned on 22 counts, were said to have also assaulted one Venerable Chimela Samuel while he was officiating as a priest in charge of the church. The trial judge, Justice Crescent Dappa-Addowere, later granted them N100,000 bail each, with sureties that must be important members of the church and residing within the jurisdiction of the court. In the charge sheet, one of the suspects, Emmanuel Adeniyi, was accused of stealing N5,694,030, property of Saint Matthew’s Anglican Church, Nkpogu Deanery, Port Harcourt.

Another suspects, Victor Amachree, was accused of disturbing religious worship by locking out Venerable Chimela Samuel and the congregation by preventing them to worship. One of the charges read: “That you Kingdom Okechukwu, Oje Uduadele, Sunny Ohimai, Kingsley Onyekosor, Samuel Unendi, on or about June 22, 2013 at Saint Matthew’s Anglican Church, Nkpogu Deanery, Port Harcourt, in Port Harcourt Judicial Division, did conspire among yourselves to commit an offence to wit: “Offering violence to officiating ministers of religion and thereby committed an offence.” However, the suspects pleaded not guilty to the allegation of unlawful transfer of the money from the church’s account to personal accounts and all the other counts read to them. Dappa-Addo adjourned the case till June 28.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/13-church-members-arraigned-missing-n1bn/

While Nigerians Slept, 2 American Pop Stars Shamelessly Stole Phyno’s Song As Theirs


Is it a coincidence that the duo released the same song with the same title when a Nigerian star had done it six months before?


Phyno’s ‘The Playmaker’ album. ‘I’m A Fan’ is listed as track 13.
As Nigerian songs are popping all over the world, it was only a matter of time before foreigners started to imitate our sound. But we didn’t expect it to be so blatantly done.

On Phyno‘s last album The Playmaker, he featured Mr Eazi and Decarlo on a song called ‘I’m A Fan’. With hits like ‘Fada Fada’ and ‘Pino Pino’, it is not one of the most popular tracks on the album but it’s not a bad song at all. It has a very nice wave that makes it soothing.

That album came out six months ago.

Fast forward to May 2016, American pop singer Pia Mia released a song with struggle R&B star Jeremih. The title? ‘I’m A Fan’.

It sounded like a coincidence so we decided to take a listen. Brothers and sisters, we never esperredit: it’s a glaring ripoff of Phyno’s song!

It’s 2017 and nothing is a secret – especially with Nigerians who practically know everything. It took only a few weeks before the General Pype version of Davido‘s ‘Gbagbe Oshi’ came out and fans were made to understand that it was bought and recorded by Davido. That’s fair.

But these two American stars are not connected to Phyno by any means (at least not that we know of as at now) and the song is not a cover. It’s an official single released by her record label.

What’s more, she’s promoting it seriously.

We have reached out to Phyno’s management to find out if there is any type of collaboration between him and Pia Mia. They have not responded to our queries at press time.

Listen here and compare the two songs.



Here’s Phyno’s I’m A Fan that, released in Novemeber 2016.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPHYlARUB50


Here’s Pia Mia’s I’m A Fan, released in May 2017.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrHRO0Pudk


http://thenet.ng/2017/05/nigerians-slept-two-american-pop-stars-shamelessly-stole-phynos-song/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

In an effort to reform morals, Burundi government has ordered all unmarried couples until the end of the year to legalise their relationships.

The government gave the order on Friday follows the launch of a campaign this month by President Pierre Nkurunziza “to moralise society” in the tiny nation which for two years has been in the grip of sometimes violent political upheaval. Interior ministry spokesman Terence Ntahiraja said the country was facing a population explosion which he blamed on “illegal marriages”, polygamy, bigamy and “hundreds of schoolgirls getting pregnant”.

He said church and state-sanctioned weddings were the solution and were a patriotic duty. Nkurunziza said Burundians should show their love for each other — and their country — by getting married. The government has since been pressuring unwed couples across the country to tie the knot.

The governor of the southeastern province of Rutana has ordered that “persons living in common-law unions” should be put on a special list by June 22, while the governor of the northwestern Bubanza province has demanded unspecified “sanctions” against aisle-dodgers.

Pierre, a 27-year-old farmer living with his partner in Ngozi, in the north, said local officials had threatened him with a 50,000 Burundian franc ($25/22 euro) fine and said any child born out of wedlock would not be eligible for free education and medical costs. Pierre said he had not married because he could not afford the bride price demanded by his girlfriend’s family. “She told me she was pregnant. As I am poor, we decided to come together to raise our child,” he said. “We thought we would legalise our union as soon as we could afford it.”

That was five years ago and the couple is now onto their third child. To enact the president’s orders, officials have begun organising mass weddings, something one civil society activist opposed as “a violation of human rights because the state has no right to attack two adults who have decided to live together without being married.” The activist said the forced marriages were part of a “religious crusade” led by Nkurunziza and his wife, both fervent, born-again evangelical Christians. Spokesman Ntahiraja dismissed such arguments saying the government’s campaign was within the law.

“We want Burundians to understand that everyone is responsible for his life, we want order in this country,” he said. “All this is done within the framework of the patriotic training programme,” he added, referring to an initiative launched by Nkurunziza in August 2013 to reinforce “positive traditional values.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/show-love-get-married-burundi-tells-unmarried-couples/

The Senate, Thursday, broke the 17 years jinx by passing into law the age long Petroleum Industry Governance Bill. Senate President, Bukola Saraki while commenting on the bill said “this is a Bill #PIGB that has been here for many years, we made a commitment and it’s being fulfilled.” Continuing, Saraki said, “this Bill is not only for Nigerians but for our investors. We are proud of what has been done.” The PIG bill was read the third time at the Senate’s plenary before it was passed. The PIGB was passed after the Senate, in the Committee of the Whole, considered the Report of the Committee on Petroleum Upstream, Petroleum Downstream and Gas presented by Senator Donald Alasoadura. Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has always been identified as a comprehensive instrument for the oil sector development and diversification. The content, in summary, pushes for a more inclusive development away from crude oil to other product lines and by-products and robust engagement between international oil companies (IOCs) and the government in the area of investment and modifications in the Joint Venture Partnerships (JVPs)/cash call obligations. It also advocates the activation and extension of indigenous participation and local content development, just and fair engagement of the oil producing communities and transparency/accountability in the industry.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/breaking-senate-passes-pib-law/

iluvpomo:
Aha ... I did not redicule our hero Mou in any way. I am just stating the facts. Mou himself stated that it was not his goal to win a Europa title read here and so to see him jumping up and down like that is downright embarrassing... I guess he knows he's in Man U and so time to lower his expectations

Then champions league qualification is not part of winning the the cup. The cup don get small level now

Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has said that the Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose will not be allowed by the courts to contest again for Governorship position in 2018 ‎to serve his first term which was truncated in 2006 as a recent statement credited to him claimed. Fayose was impeached about seven months to the end of his first term in 2006, but the Supreme Court in 2014 reinstated him as the Governor of the state. As the Governorship elections in the state perches round the corner.

Mr. Fayose has been reported to have said that he would seek a re-election to complete his first tenure which was truncated in 2006. He reportedly made the statement on Monday. ‎However, the Human Rights lawyer, Falana, while reacting to Fayose’s claims said that the Governor’s bid to seek re-election was illegal and unconstitutional. According to him, “Tenure extension by a governor under any disguise is anomalous.

No court can prolong the tenure of a sitting governor buying the two terms prescribed by the Constitution. “In the case of Gov Rasheed Ladoja v INEC the appellant wanted an extension of his term of office to allow him to spend extra 11 months while he was fighting his impeachment from outside. “Although the Supreme Court had set aside his impeachment it was held that the relief was illegal and unconstitutional. “Similarly, the governors who were re-elected after their initial election was annulled, the Supreme Court made it abundantly clear that tenure extension was unknown to the Constitution. “In view of the settled position of the law on the matter, Governor Ayo Fayose cannot be granted by any court in Nigeria.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/falana-fayose-courts-wont-allow-re-election-bid-illegal-unconstitutional/

fulaniHERDSman:
Pig heads. Burn both the BROOM & UMBRELLA together. We need to wrestle our country back from the bad old fathers.

Exactly

Saphiex:
I love this Trump for being blunt. I don't like politically correct people.

Exactly.

Where them dey get their money from?

US President Donald Trump has urged Muslim countries to take the lead in combating radicalisation in a major speech in Saudi Arabia.
"Drive them out of this earth," he told regional leaders in Riyadh, as part of his first official trip abroad.
Mr Trump blamed Iran, Saudi Arabia's rival, for instability in the region.
His speech is seen as an attempted reset with Muslims after his campaign rhetoric stirred concerns in the Islamic world.
Mr Trump had previously suggested he would be open to creating a database of all the Muslims in the US. He had also called for Muslims to be temporarily banned from entering the US over security concerns.
'Good vs evil'
Speaking in the Saudi capital to leaders of 55 Muslim-majority countries, Mr Trump called this a "new chapter", saying he was not there to "lecture" them or impose the American way of life.
The fight against extremism, he added, was not a battle between different faiths: "This is a battle between good and evil".


"A better future is only possible if your nations drive out the terrorists, and drive out the extremists".
But, he added, the countries could not wait for "American power" to act, and had to "fulfil their part of the burden".

A tough message: By Frank Gardner, BBC Security correspondent, Riyadh

Behind the lavish praise heaped on his hosts, President Trump used this speech to deliver a tough message to Arab and Muslim governments: deal with the ideology that fuels terrorism now or live with it for generations to come.
He went out of his way to avoid the sort of inflammatory language he's more usually known for. His repeated condemnation of Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran will have pleased the Gulf Arab leaders listening.
Unlike his predecessor, Barack Obama, this US president made no mention of human rights or democracy. But he did condemn the oppression of women.
And amongst several cynical reactions to the speech from around the region on social media, some have pointed out that here in Saudi Arabia women are forbidden to drive and there are no parliamentary elections. In Iran, the country accused by Mr Trump of being behind much of the current terrorism across the Middle East, they've just had a free election and women are free to drive.
Analysts said the speech was a change for Mr Trump, who is trying to redefine his relationship with the Muslim world after several controversial remarks, including an interview last year in which he famously said: "I think Islam hates us."
His highly anticipated address did not include the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism", which he had used before, is considered offensive by many Muslims.


Cutting off the money

Meanwhile, the US and six Gulf states were expected to sign a deal to co-ordinate their efforts aimed at cutting off sources of money for extremist groups, including so-called Islamic State (IS).

The countries - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain - are involved in the fight against the militants, but have been accused of backing the group and other Sunni militants - most notably in a 2014 email by Hillary Clinton released by Wikileaks.
"The unique piece of it is that every single one of them are signatories on how they're responsible and will actually prosecute the financing of terrorism, including individuals," said Dina Powell, US Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39989548

Splinz:
Where did you quote that from? The book of Revelation—a vision! Almost everything in Revelation is symbolic.

Stop looking for every means of justifying your idol worship. Mary is in her grave awaiting the resurrection just like Abraham, David and the rest.

After the transfiguration, did Moses and Elijah went back to thier grave or heaven?

The epistle of Reno paragraph at last, my back they pain me. lol

Let me start this piece by congratulating former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on the marriage of his daughter, Halima, to her beau, Auwal Abdullahi. It goes without saying that the wedding would be the talk of Nigeria for aeons to come because of the kind of crowd it pulled. In case you missed the news, let me inform you that no fewer than thirty private jets landed at Minna airport last weekend on account of this wedding that locked down Nigeria! Thirty private jets. I do not even know what to exclaim! This is more than wow! Gosh does not even come close to the exclamation I wanted to express when I first read of this private jet convention in Minna! Gobsmacked is the only word that comes close, but even it does not quite capture the reaction I had. Thank God former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was amongst the wedding guests, does not have a private jet, because that would have been the major topic of the day.


The propaganda loving All Progressive Congress would have capitalized on that to rubbish Jonathan. Lai Mohammed would have been hyper ventilating with excitement at the character assassination possibilities if such had been the case. But the lesson Nigerians may want to take from this is that few, very few of those who arrived Minna in private jets have any sort of productive business venture that generates and sustains jobs in Nigeria. Yes, there were a couple of folks made rich by oil and gas at the Minna private jet convention, but these are not people that did anything constructive, productive or job creating that gave them wealth. Some were given oil blocks or allocations, others were given allocations to import petroleum products. Even a monkey would prosper if given such oligarchic opportunities. But how does that sort of business create jobs or adds value to Nigerians? Others amongst them are government contractors, supplying sundry items to the various governments at federal, state and local government level. They are basically suppliers. They buy and resell to the government. But how does that sort of business create jobs and adds value to Nigerians? Yet, they have private jets, private jetties, private yachts and even private body guards! Nigeria has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, tax to GDP ratio in the world. In a country of 190 million people, only 214 individuals in the entire country pay tax of 20 million naira or more. This is according to the very latest official figures from the Federal Inland Revenue Service. Norway has a population of just 5.2 million people yet they have more than 100 times the amount of people paying tax of $65,000 of more (the equivalent of 20 million naira). But the story does not end there. Norway has never had a private party or private wedding or any private celebration that attracted 30 private jets!
The funniest thing is that Norway gives Nigeria financial aid every year! We have a political and economic elite that are so rapacious and parasitic and who only think of what they can suck from Nigeria and could not careless that they are surrounded by some of the poorest people in the world according to official figures from the 2016 United Nations Human Development Index released on the 21st of March, 2017. Norway is number 1 on that list. Nigeria is 152 out of 188 nations. Libya (102) and Iraq (121) both of which are war torn nations, outrank Nigeria. But most embarrassingly, Syria that has been enmeshed in probably the worst humanitarian crisis the world has seen in at least 10 years also outranks Nigeria (149)! And almost all our elites are involved in this.


President Muhammadu Buhari likes to be seen as the only good person in Nigeria but we have not forgotten so soon how, according to Daily Trust (which also happens to be the President’s favorite paper) his own daughter, Zahra Buhari, received pre wedding gifts worth 47 million Naira from her then suitor and now husband, Ahmed Indimi. This same Ahmed Indimi likes to fly in private jets, pictures of which dot Nigeria’s social media landscape. I can assure you that Ahmed Indimi is not one of the 214 Nigerians who pay tax of over 20 million Naira. Yet right there in Indimi’s Borno state, right there in Maiduguri where their palatial family house is a sprawling tourist attraction, there are millions of Internally Displaced Persons without food to eat and medicine for their ailments. Perhaps it is this sort of wickedness that Mohammed Yusuf saw and which made him conclude that Boko (book) must be Haram, if it can make people so oblivious to the suffering around them. It is this same Indimi family that likes to marry and be married to Nigeria’s high and mighty (President Ibrahim Babangida was also once their in-law via the marriage of Mohammed Babangida, his first son, to Rahama Indimi). Many Nigerians are not aware that if you isolate Borno state from the rest of Nigeria, that state becomes the poorest region on planet earth BAR NONE! Borno has the highest unemployment rate in Nigeria and the second lowest primary school enrollment rate in Nigeria. What has her private jet loving, high and mighty marrying elite done to change that?

I was in Anambra once and the type of community spirit I saw there impressed me. They may not have a lot of private jets in Anambra, but in Anambra, they have community associations that give scholarships and business grants to those who are commercially inclined. There is NO poverty in Nnewi, one of the communities where this community spirit is most prevalent. They build their own primary and secondary schools through community effort. I am dead serious. If you go there you will not believe your eyes! They have well tarred modern roads that were built through their private efforts. All over Anambra, the various towns and villages copy the Nnewi model. I daresay that there is more evidence of private and community development in Anambra than there is of any type of federal government presence. Anambra does not even have an airport! Borno does. Anambra does not even have a publicly built federal university! The only so called Federal University in Anambra, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, was built by the state government with contributions from private citizens and then compulsorily taken over by the military government of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida via Decree No. 34 of July 15, 1992. But in Borno, they have a massive federal university WHOLLY built with Federal Government funds. If any state deserves to be poor from lack of Federal Government presence, that state is Anambra. If any state deserves to be rich by reason of the existence of Federal Government presence, that state is Borno. But Borno is poor while Anambra is rich! Why?

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are sponsoring immunization and other medical interventions in Borno state. They are together the richest people on earth. Yet their life styles is nowhere near as lavish as Nigeria’s private jet loving parasitic elite. Both Gates and Buffet are known for their frugality. Both of them have shown more concern for Nigeria’s poor than any of the owners or leasers of the 30 private jets that converged in Minna last week. In fact, Bill Gates has personally visited with many of the poorest Nigerians and has administered vaccines to their children with his own hands! If those thirty private jet owners or leasers could do in their communities what Nnewi people do in theirs, then most assuredly Nigeria would not be in recession today. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is worth $67 billion, Mark Zuckerberg is worth $55.5 billion. Both of them are young people who made their money by dint of hardwork, yet none of these two billionaires had a wedding as spectacularly opulent as either Zahra Buhari’s or Halima Babangida’s weddings. Mark Zuckerberg actually got married at a simple ceremony in the backyard of his home in Palo Alto, California in front of 100 guests.


The British charity, Oxfam, recently released a report on inequality in Nigeria. According to Oxfam, the combined wealth of the five richest Nigerians, put at about $29.9 billion, could end extreme poverty in the country! According to Oxfam, in recent years the number of millionaires in Nigeria has increased by 44% while the number of those living in poverty has increased by 69%! And instead of the shameless Federal Government of Nigeria to appreciate Oxfam, not just for its years of charity work in Nigeria, but for this new report which distills the issues militating against Nigeria’s efforts to increase human development, it turns around to condemn the report and accuse Oxfam of ‘inciting’ Nigerians against her elite! It is becoming clearer and clearer that Nigeria, as currently designed, can hardly produce young people with the mindset of Bezos or Zuckerberg. You see, if we do not redesign Nigeria and ensure that the wealth of the nation is more equitably redistributed, we will find out soon enough that Nigeria, as it is currently designed, is designed to fail.


Nigeria has such a high unemployment rate because the wealth of the nation is trapped in the hands of carpetbaggers, rent seekers and influence paddlers who flaunt their wealth at the masses without even giving them token employment. And it is not as if Nigerians are not willing to work. We are. Strive Masiyiwa, the Zimbabwean founder of Econet, famously revealed how stunned he was when he found out how willing Nigerians were to work. When he came to Nigeria in 2001 and wanted to hire staff for his new company, Econet Wireless Nigeria, he advertised for jobs seeking people with telecommunications experience who had electronic engineering degrees and a minimum of five years relevant experience. Mr. Masiyiwa, a dollar billionaire with experience working all over the world was stunned at the response. Let me allow him tell his story because I cannot possibly tell it better than him. “I came into the office to find postal bags, piled to the ceiling! “I only want to see the applications from people who meet our requirements, and not from chancers who aren’t qualified,” I complained. “Sir, these are the ones we have vetted.” “What?! You mean there were more than this?” “Thousands, sir.” Then I came up with an idea: “Why don’t you separate for me, the most qualified academically. Set aside people with MBAs, and even PHDs.” A day later, another postal bag of applications was delivered to my office. I was staggered! There were thousands of people with qualifications in just this one discipline with MBAs and PHDs! Many had qualified in the best universities around the world. There were also GSM-qualified Nigerians working internationally, including in America and Europe, wanting to return home! I was blown away by the qualifications. I thought to myself: “You can start almost any business or industry here. I wish investors would one day discover the wealth of this nation.” Whenever I hear people talk about the wealth of Nigeria in terms of oil, I shake my head to say: “You have no idea what you’re talking about!” The true wealth of Nigeria is its extraordinary human capital, and passion for education. Unleash that and no one can stop them!” The funniest thing is that Strive Masiyiwa, a dollar billionaire who made his money from a productive industry like the telecommunications sector and who provided enduring jobs for literarily tens of thousands of Nigerians, does not live as large as many Nigerian elite. No wonder that the exploitative carpetbagging elite of Nigeria chased him out of Nigeria! Strive Masiyiwa is the antithesis of the exploitative Nigerian elite who epitomize at least six of the seven deadly social sins: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without principle. The only one they do not epitomize is Science without humanity because that involves work and intellectual and creative abilities which many of our elite lack.


If it were cleverness and guile, they would supersede even the best! Ango Abdullahi Ango Abdullahi has no basis for saying that the North would not allow Professor Yemi Osinbajo succeed Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. The North does not decide for Nigeria. Nigerians decide for Nigeria. What Ango Abdullahi seems to have forgotten is that it was Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that God used to make Muhammadu Buhari President in 2015. If the Northern Elders Forum could have made Buhari President, they would have done so in 2003, 2007 and 2011 when Buhari tried unsuccessfully to become President. Nigeria has changed. Unfortunately, people like Ango Abdullahi and Junaid Mohammed, who add very little value to Nigeria and exist only to make provocative statements should realize that should their words precipitate crisis today or in 2019, both they and those they represent will be the biggest losers because they have more to gain from a united and peaceful Nigeria founded on the rule of law than others. Nigerians will famously remember Ango Abdullahi as the liar who said that money from the North was used to develop the oil industry in the South. His exact words in 2014 were as follows: “It is the North that developed the present day oil industry in this country. It is Northern money; it is the Northern leadership that developed the oil industry.” Since Ango Abdullahi purports to be a professor and since he is from the North, let me use the words of another Northerner who happens to be a professor to respond to him. On Saturday the 6th of May 2017, Farooq Kperogi wrote thus: That money from the North funded oil exploration in the South. Professor Ango Abdullahi actually repeated this lie recently. He said this, ironically, while exhorting Emir Sanusi II to “go and read history.” The truth is that not a dime of northern Nigeria’s money contributed to oil exploration in the Niger Delta. When oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956, Shell bore the financial burden for the exploration. Other Euro-American oil companies later joined in oil exploration. It wasn’t until 1973 that the Nigerian federal government acquired 30 percent shares in oil companies. By 1973, Northern Nigeria had ceased to exist; it had been divided into states. In any case, colonial records show that the biggest motivation for amalgamating northern and southern Nigeria was because northern Nigeria wasn’t financially self-sustaining and the British Imperial Government said it would never subsidize colonial administration anywhere in Africa. So Lord Lugard amalgamated the two regions and used the surplus from the south to sustain the north. It’s illogical to say that a region that wasn’t financially self-sustaining financed oil exploration in the Niger Delta. It is a very sad day when a character like Ango Abdullahi is called an elder statesman. I think a better word for his ilk would be an agbaya! Professor (?) Abdullahi can ask Farook Kperogi to tell him the meaning of that word! Reno’s Nuggets Never marry just because plans are at an advance stage. If there is doubt in your heart, call it off. Embarrassment is better than a wrong union. It is easier to change I dont into I do than to change I do to I don’t. And be aware that the sexier the woman, the higher the maintenance. The lovelier the woman. The lower the maintenance. Sexy is expensive. Love is not.


Finally, do not be moved by beauty. With fake hair, fake lashes and fake eyes, any girl can be fine. Focus on character. It has no fake #RenosNuggets Reno Omokri is a Christian TV talk show host and founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the Helen and Bemigho Sanctuary for orphans. He is the author of three books, Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God, Why Jesus Wept and Apples of Gold: A Book of Godly Wisdom. His upcoming fourth book, Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years: Chibok, 2015 and Other Conspiracies, is set for release in June.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/buhari-babangidas-nigerians-decide-nigeria-not-north-reno/

In our series of letters from African journalists, veteran Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene reflects on why in Ghana a person's age is not etched in stone.
Ghanaians do not particularly love numbers. We tend to be quite lax, especially with figures that have to do with age.
Someone's date of birth or age is not considered important and very rarely features in any story about that person.
I know that in many parts of the world, once you are born and you acquire a date of birth, it stays with you. It is unchangeable and you die with it.
In Ghana, it is common to see notices in newspapers announcing a change in someone's date of birth. This often happens when a working person's date of retirement is approaching.


People then swear an affidavit to change their profiles from the 59-year-olds they are known to be, to the 55-year-olds that they want to be so they can carry on receiving a salary for a few extra years.
According to the constitution, the retirement age for most public officers is 60.

Seven years younger

Some people have been known to swear affidavits to change their date of birth that would put them in Primary Class One before they were born.
The most dramatic Notice of Change of Date of Birth I have seen was one that reduced an official's age by seven years.

Incorrect birth records could undermine elections
I am writing about this subject because of a recent news item that I thought went way beyond the extraordinary, even for Ghana.
The news report said that about 800 teachers had applied to the Ghana Education Service to have their ages changed.
Some wanted their dates of birth changed to make them younger and a few wanted their dates changed to make them older than what was on their documentation.
The news story was greeted with a lot of outrage and I said to myself: This must mean Ghana is finally joining the rest of the world in paying respect to dates of birth.
"How can people want their dates of birth to be changed?" was the incredulous reaction to the story I heard from many young people.
But then the head of one of the teaching unions came out to make a spirited defence of his members.
The teachers wanted their dates of birth changed only because, according to him, mistakes had been made at the time of their employment by the payroll departments in entering the dates.

Why make a fuss about three years?

This phenomenon has been possible because very few births are recorded.
Once upon a time it was illiterate parents that did not bother to get the births of their children recorded and with time the date got lost in the mists of memory.
A birth certificate is supposed to be provided before a child can be enrolled in school but somehow or other, many people are able to get their children into school without birth certificates.


This total disregard for the sanctity of dates of birth manifests in other ways that sometimes undermines all official records in Ghana.
When in later life you require a birth certificate, you would go before a commissioner of oaths and offer a date that would be said to be based on the best "guessestimate" given you by your parents or family member.
In much later life, when you are approaching the compulsory retirement age of 60 and you desperately want to continue to work a few more years because you can't survive on your pension, you go back to the commissioner of oaths and swear that you have now discovered compelling evidence that the original date of your certificate was wrong.
For example, you were told that you were born in the year the chief of the village was enstooled (inaugurated) and you have discovered he was enstooled in 1968 and not 1965.
There probably does not exist any official record of the date of the enstoolment of this chief anyway, so why make a fuss about a difference of three years?


This total disregard for the sanctity of dates of birth manifests in other ways that sometimes undermines all official records in Ghana.
I have seen school children who cannot be more than 14 years old who have voters registration cards. The law says you have to be 18 to register to vote.
The consequences might follow you through life unless you are prepared to go on paying visits to the commissioner of oaths to acquire new dates of birth.
Police recruitment advertisements have a cut-off date of 25 years.
You are really 21 but have a voters' registration card that says you are 26 because you passed yourself off as 18 when you were 14.
Sometimes it has been football players who try to shave off a number of years from their ages so they can participate in age-restricted competitions.

These days technology is being deployed to ensure the integrity of such competitions, making it difficult for 20-somethings to participate in under-17 competitions.
A lot of attempts have been made to enforce the registration of births and deaths, and so far all these attempts have failed spectacularly.
There is already in existence a regulation issued by the head of the civil service some years ago which says public officials are not allowed to change their dates of birth during their time in government employment.
In other words, you are stuck with whatever date of birth you enter the service with, and you cannot get younger or older by swearing an affidavit.
It was always going to be difficult to enforce this directive because there are many people here who believe their ages are "confidential" and should not be advertised.
You could ask someone how old they were and get a reply: Is it my official or real age that you want?
One of the firm promises made by the new government is that within its first year in office, a national identification system will be in place.
In other words, all Ghanaians will have identification cards with their unchangeable biometric data and none of us will be able to swear an affidavit to acquire a new date of birth.

We are all holding our breath.
And whilst I await this dramatic change, I have been wondering if there are any advantages in the current situation where a person's age is a changeable and confidential figure?
My mind went to a sentence I read in an online article in a British newspaper earlier this year.
Those who follow tennis would recognise that this was part of a report during the Australian Open:
"A few hours after Serena Williams, 35, joined her 36-year-old sister, Venus, in the women's final by trouncing the 34-year-old Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Federer, 35, somehow conjured some more retro magic to beat Stan Wawrinka, a mere 31, for the 19th time in 22 matches," the article in The Guardian said.
I fear that faced with the possibility of such prose in our newspapers, many people in Ghana are going to opt to keep dates of birth a changeable and private event.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39859738

kwinzara:
she was a virgin ooo, didn't u see it there that they did not have sexual contact before the marriage

For the fact that they did not have sex be4 marriage does not prove that both of them are virgins, they did it on religious grounds. Did you know the life they live be4 then? so we never can really tell, but my guts tell me she has tasted very good dick be4.

The Fifa Council has ratified the decision to give Africa nine automatic places when the World Cup expands to 48 teams in 2026.

The move was confirmed on Tuesday in Bahrain - the continent currently has five spots at the tournament.

A tenth African country will take part in a six-nation play-off tournament to decide the last two spots.

The Bureau of the Fifa Council made the original proposal of how it planned to allocate the 48 places on 30 March.

The expanded World Cup will feature 16 teams from Europe.

Fifa members voted in January to expand the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams, starting with the 2026 edition.

Allocation:

Asia: 8 direct slots - increased from 4.5 (currently 46 members)
Africa: 9 direct slots - increased from 5 (currently 54 members)
North and central America: 6 direct slots - increased from 3.5 (currently 34 members)
South America: 6 direct slots - increased from 4.5 (currently 10 members)
Oceania: 1 direct slot - increased from 0.5 (currently 11 members)
Europe: 16 direct slots - increased from 13 (currently 55 members)
Finaltwo places in 2026 decided by six-team play-offs
NB: Currently teams from Asia, north and central America, South America and Oceania play-off for two places hence .5 spots above.

http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/39870470?ocid=socialflow_facebook

ManTiger:
Thats the reason why they forwarded the items to her, most likely they forwarded the worst looking of the items and the gal is not too smart to figure it out.

They 2 families belongs to 2 different class group.

U are right man

otobomax:
Only the rich marry the rich orientation. Maybe the guy no dey their standard n they'll end up pushing the guy away even if he was meant for her.

Exactly

PatriotTemidayo:
Exactly my thought too. And the lady in question doesn't understand the game plan by the parents.
They cant tell her directly to leave the guy cuz they fear she'll retort cuz she's highly educated and a bit liberal since she lives in the US, so they instead wanna plant contempt and bitterness in her mind for the guy. Its a trick. And she doesn't know it.

I concur

dbrown:
have decided to take her back but I just can't take it off my head..
I can't trust her anymore.. I just think about all the lie she lied all the excuses she gave just to be with the guy..

its not easy for me at all.... I gave her a chance just cost is never know how my next would be... she could be worse or better but it is not certain..


women are dam wicked!

You are a confuse man.

Since u have decided to accept her Back u should as well forgive and forget her past deeds. You can't have it bothways.