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What the moon looks like over Death Valley in the California desert.

Every day, we look up at the sky and see the sun, moon and stars. The other planets in the Solar System are millions of miles away and most people have never seen them except those with telescopes and those who know that some of the planets can be seen at night , although they look like stars since they are so far away.

So what if the planets were as close to us as the moon is? Well this is Space artist Ron Miller's rendition of what the sky would look like if the planets were just 240,000 miles away just like the moon is. In an email to Rebecca J. Rosen of the theatlantic.com , he described his work.
He began with a picture of the moon over Death Valley in California and then calculated the number of degrees in the sky a given planet would take up at that distance. "For instance," he explained to her over email, "the moon covers just 1/2 a degree. Venus would cover about two degrees, so it would appear about four time larger than the moon."

It is beautiful to say the least.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/what-the-night-sky-would-look-like-if-the-other-planets-were-as-close-as-the-moon/277247/

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Source: https://v7place.com/index.php?board=30.0

chenhkbx:
After more than a year of the epidemic, can the new president of the United States reverse the situation?

Almost everything political will be reversed; but COVID restrictions will depend on Mrs COVID o!

Chii59:
Space dey inside your travelling bag?

Hahaha....of course nau,,,

ghettonews:
Yes but I only know about students visa appointment

Oh ok. No wonder. They are only attending to students now?

Is the US Embassy open again for Visa Appointments? Can someone still schedule an appointment?

That Nigeria and Nigerians are seen worldwide as corrupt is no longer news; just last week Transparency International as usual ranked us very high on the list of the most corrupt nations on Earth. To make matters worse, even Nigerians see themselves as beyond redemption as a popular saying nationwide is " Everybody is barawo, na the person wey dem catch be thief"

Madam Sola Ogunniyi ( nee Ismail) is the latest Nigerian to prove that WE ARE NOT ALL THIEVES. A protégé of the late Dr. Tai Solarin at the famous Mayflower School in Ikenne, Sola definitely learnt from the great man. The story of her returning N38 million is no longer news. What is news is people’s reaction on social media and nationwide to the story.

Whilst most praised her; there were others who saw her as mumu for not running away with the money and a few who said it was no big deal as she couldn’t run since BVN could be used to trace her; their assumptions does not of course explain though why there are still criminals and people who steal and defraud even with existing laws and systems like BVN.

We decided to sit down with Sola for an interview.
The inspiring young lady is the CEO of sholliefabrics- a fast growing clothier and fashion house in Lagos. @sholliefabrics on Instagram

Tell us a little more about Sola Ismail?

I am Sola Ogunniyi (nee Ismail) Married to Omotayo Ogunniyi. I have 3 wonderful children. I studied Agricultural Economics @ Ogun State University. I am a believer of God , and yes I am God fearing, I am a Muslim... I love fashion, I love to look good hence my passion turned to business

I lost both parents 3yrs apart same date different year. My parents were quite close and no one even believed my mum would stay 3years after Dad's demise. I still cry and still praying to God to console me at the same time. I am thankful for the years they spent on earth with me... Rest on Dad & mum Alh & Alhaja Dayo Ismail ( Baba Adinni of Emakirun Mosque of Ojodu, Lagos)


Some Nigerians on Nairaland hailed you; others said you are a[b] mumu[/b] and should have ran with the money- what do you say to them?

Thank you, Nigerians including close and extended family members who have rightly praised me for refunding the N38m have identified with our cores values of what I am, what I stand for and what we live for. This is what the Yoruba call "Omoluabi" which embodies honesty, dignity and integrity. Many Nigerians see other reasons they would not return d money .Well such actions will be short-lived and the damages of such actions will be forever. I can't be running helter skelter like the Yahoo boys moving from one place to another. *

You are the CEO of Sholliefabrics. What does your fashion house do and how can Nigerians patronize you?

ShollieFabrics is a home of fashion where Nigerians can buy all range of laces both (for women and Men) Atiku, Cotton, Wool etc We design, we make dresses and We sell Ready to wear @sholliefab_styles and we do AsoEbi for parties. My shop is @ No1 Balogun Strt off Fadeyi Aladura, obafemi Awolowo Way Ikeja. And my Instagram page is sholliefabrics.

Who was Tai Solarin to you? What was your experience as a student of Mayflower?

I attended Mayflower school Ikenne for my Secondary Education, Uncle Tai was all about Hardwork, Determination and Integrity! Like our school anthem We can be become whatever we choose to be.. This has always been my mantra and that is why I keep aiming higher to be the best in all I do. My experience .. Wow I can write a whole book on that . Uncle Tai taught us Humanity! To love one another and be patriotic.. He would go picking up dead people on the streets ( that other Nigerians would just leave and look away), how he did not collect a kobo as the MD of Defunct people's Bank.. it has shaped my life in a positive way.


What Is Your Advise To Nigerians?
What I have to tell Nigerians is that we have individual and collective responsibilities to make Nigeria a better place. The change you want to see in Nigeria starts with you as an individual. The image of Nigeria can be projected with a much better narrative when we all do the right thing, remain honest and maintain integrity.


Has the Chinese company reached out to you after the events?
They just said Thanks.. Honestly as human being let's be realistic I expected a thank you very much the next day but I didn't get it..

Nigerians are largely viewed worldwide as corrupt, thus many are surprised by your action- can we then say not all Nigerians are corrupt?

Yes, that is the point. Even if many are, not every Nigerian is a rogue. Many do have the tendency, but no, not every Nigerian is a fraudster. So, many Nigerians are upright, straightforward and trustworthy. Therefore, we can truly say that not every Nigerians is corrupt.

As the late legend Dora Akunyili -would say "Nigeria: Great People, Great County!"

Source: https://v7place.com/index.php?topic=2262.0

Deadlytruth:
So why would you like a person whom you yourself admit as having shed innocent blood unnecessarily? I thought people are loved for their kindness and milk of humanness?

God judges us by our motives not our actions or else no one would have any hope. Nzeogwu meant well in my opinion-but their methods were dead on arrival.

Jostoman:
Is USA too far for you to go and ask him

No, it's just an 11 hour flight; not really hard to get there sir!

InfernoNig:
The way we carry another person matter for head, makes me wonder if we don't have our own matter to carry.

Its called news sir and you like it and are reading it!

Is Donald Trump Planning A State Of Emergency? In America they call it Martial Law where just like Nigeria, the President can bypass all laws and directly govern the country or a part of it.
This seems to be what the President spent Friday discussing with one of his most loyal supporters and self made millionaire "The Pillow Guy " from Minnesota, Mike Lindell.

From Yahoo News

President Trump appears to be out of options in his quest to con his way into a second term in office. The court challenges didn’t work. Pressuring Republican politicians to hold up the certification of the election results didn’t work. Inciting a mob of thousands of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol building didn’t work. As things stand currently, Joe Biden is still scheduled to be sworn in as president on January 20th.

But Donald J. Trump isn’t one to give up. No, he’s going to “fight like hell,” just like he told his supporters before they attacked the Capitol last week. He’s still got a solid five days to drum up another ill-fated scheme to stay in office, and he’s calling in the big guns. Mike Lindell, the MAGA-friendly affordable bedding entrepreneur also known as the MyPillow guy, was seen entering the White House on Friday.

Now why, exactly, is Trump spending his final days in office meeting with the CEO of a pillow company? We don’t have to guess. Lindell left his notes exposed as he was heading into the White House, and it looks like he and the president were set to talk about something related to … steps to be “taken immediately to save” … something, something … “Constitution.”

OK, this doesn’t seem good. Let’s keep reading.

"…Insurrection Act now as a result of the assault” … something, something … “martial law if necessary upon the first hint of any…”

OK, then!

So just to reset where we’re at here: As states are struggling to inoculate their citizens against a relentless pandemic that has killed nearly 400,000 Americans, and as the nation continues to reckon with how a violent mob of extremists was able to infiltrate the Capitol and kill five people in an attempt to overthrow the government, the president of the United States is meeting with a pillow salesman to discuss the possibility of instituting martial law. Sound about right.

This is far from the first time Trump has turned to Lindell, maybe the president’s most ardent supporter from the business world. The MyPillow guy has appeared at several of the president’s rallies, and even after last week’s insurrection maintained that Trump would remain president for another four years. (Lindell described the riot in the Capitol as “very peaceful,” which will be great news for the five people who died.) He’s also advised the president on Covid-19, and reportedly helped inspire Trump’s promotion of an exotic plant extract as a cure. (Lindell acquired a financial stake in the company that produces the product shortly before pushing it to the president.) Trump even invited Lindell to speak during a coronavirus task force briefing from the White House Rose Garden. “Boy, do you sell those pillows,’ Trump said as he introduced him.

Trump bringing Lindell into the White House on Friday shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, which is probably more ludicrous than the visit itself. At least we have a better idea about the nature of the “many calls and many meetings” that have made up the entirety of Trump’s recent daily schedules.

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/mypillow-guy-presents-trump-china-015719953.html

LegendHero:
This is the most useless thread I have ever seen.

So Igbos want to install Awolowo of all people as the president and that was the reason for the coup? Such shameless, cunning, and disgraceful theory.

Nnamdi Azikwe was the ceremonial president. Why would the Igbo officers skip him for Awolowo?

Nwafor Orizu was the Senate president. Why would the Igbo officers skip him for Awolowo?

Aguiyi Ironsi arrested the coupist and failed to execute them while Awo continue to languish in prison without a release order.

Even all through Nigeria history, and Ibo man have never in their entirety supported any Yoruba agenda so where did that love of installing Awo as president in 1966 come from?

Igbos that won't even vote Awo's party during those period are the ones these jokers are saying planned installing Awo as president?

Thankyou for your contribution sir. But I disagree with you that this is a useless thread?
For one you are here commenting on it; sharing your opinion; and I seriously doubt a person of your calibre would dabble in anything useless.

Gireiboy:
Which means they suppose narrative of the historian can be tainted with their subconscious bias, just like you apparently.

I am an historian, I write things the way they happened and I am open to correction. David was a great King and a man after Gods own heart; but he was also a murderer; we report things as they happened, no bias.
I like Nzeogwu and his boys; but a lot of unnecessary blood was shed and I equally pointed that out.

Gireiboy:
It was an Ibo coup, we will never forgive nor forget. Trying to change history is not going to work.

History cannot be changed; people just write what they know or their perspective of it.

Gireiboy:
Are you honestly telling us that the then northerners supported the gruesome killing of Tafawa Balewa and Sardauna. Haba!!! you guys are taking these revision of history to far.
Ok, if the coup was not an Ibo coup, then why is it that ibo's in the north and particularly Ibo soldiers in the barracks mocking northern soldiers about the killing. We were told these by family members who served in the military then.

People react based on what they are told until told otherwise or they find new information. Call a man on the phone and tell him, you are sending 1 million naira; he will start rejoicing without seeing you or the money; call another man and tell him his close relative like child, parent or wife is dead ; even though it's a phone call- the man will likely go into instant sorrow even though you may be lying to him.
The initial mood in the North was that of rejoicing until the people were presented with an alternative view of things.

Grayoso:
Indeed. So also what is revealed below as per casualties of the coup. The murderous bigot Nzeogwu went ahead to kill his Yoruba accomplice to show what would have happened to every token non-Igbo these supremacist murderers managed to coopt into their deception.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Not justifying cold blooded killings, but eye witness accounts that day say Oyegoke either refused an order or decided to leave the coup.
Any commander will shoot a subordinate at that point. It's a universal military doctrine.

Dedetwo:
He could have been one of the first Nigerians commissioned as air force officers.

Very true, Tai Solarin served in the World War 2 British Royal Air Force!

Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna was executed along with Major Victor Banjo on September 22, 1967 by the Biafrian government of Colonel Ojukwu for allegedly trying to overthrow Colonel Ojukwu.
An extremely brilliant officer, Banjo had successfully led Biafrian forces to capture Benin City and got all the way to Ore in present day Ondo State. They would have proceeded to Ibadan and captured the Western Region.

Kwame Nkrumah disliked the Balewa government and supported the more progessive politicians in Nigeria like Chief Awolowo, Aminu Kano and Tarka. When the coup failed, he gave refuge to Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna and allowed him to stay in exile in Ghana.
Alas, Nkrumah himself was overthrown barely 30 days later and Ifeajuna was sent back to Nigeria by Ghana's new military government.

Akintola fought back with a gun, the Sardauna equally fought back with a gun; but the gentleman Prime Minister did not. His death was in my opinion uncalled for. He was one of the first arrested and he cooperated.

From The Police Special Branch Report

The time was about 0400 hrs. Major Ifeajuna drove away on to the Abeokuta road. On the way they stopped and Ifeajuna asked the PM out of the car whence he shot and killed him. When he and Okafor became certain that the PM was dead they left the body in the bush at a point beyond Otta on the Lagos to Abeokuta road. They then opened the boot of the car and dropped the body of Lt. Col. Largema near that of the PM. They then drove on to Abeokuta. On the way after Abeokuta two other soldiers in the car were dropped and told to find their way back to Lagos whilst Ifeajuna and Okafor proceeded to Enugu. They arrived Enugu at about 1415 hours and proceeded to the Premier's Lodge where they held discussion with Dr. MI Okpara, then Premier of Eastern region, after which they separated and went into hiding. Ifeajuna eventually escaped to Ghana where he was received by the former President Kwame Nkrumah who sent him to Winneba to stay with SG Ikoku.

CharleyBright:
Brilliant perspective and well aligned post you came up with. You did your research well.
But let me make a few additions.
1. Nzeogwu actually planned to kill Aguyi Ironsi in the coup. But some of the Coupist ( Likely Ifejuna) who were to carry out the operation in Lagos either fail to kill Ironsi OR deliberately tipped him off. While some record has it that Ironsi escaped from attacks in his house and hide in Police HQ, from where he fought back, other records say Ifejuna was against the killing of Ironsi and deliberately failed to carry out that order.
2. Perhaps, the Nzeogwu coup would have been widely accepted and celebrated ( the Nigerian populace were aactually angry with the massive corruption of the civilian govt) but for the fact that the coupist killed prominent Northern Officials and the highest serving Northern Military Officer - Maimalari (over 75% of the death toll was Northerners) giving it an ethnic coloration most especially as rumours began to fill out that Nnamdi Azikiwe was tipped off by the IBO and had fore knowledge of the coup and told to leave the country before the coup. These facts gave rise to mutinies by Northern soldiers in Lagos and many parts of the country.
3.

You are 100% right. Nzeogwu was the only who carried out his mission as agreed. Ifeajuna failed in Lagos, thats why the coup failed. Just like the failure to arrest Abacha was in part why the 1990 coup failed. IBB for example knew they could [b]NOT [/b]arrest Idiagbon without a fight that would cost lives, thats why he made sure Idiagbon went for the Hajj. Buhari, they knew was a gentleman.

Northerners initially supported the coup, people were happy on the streets; but in the days after the leaders began to let people know that as you rightly pointed out majority of deaths were northerners killed by Ibos ( which wasnt 100% true as some of the foot soldiers used in the North were Northerners.)

Col R.A. Shodeinde.

From The Police Special Branch Report

By this time the Colonel was awake and sitting up in bed. Mrs. Shodeinde started to cry and beg for her life. Nzeogwu assured her that they had not come to kill her but her husband the Colonel. When she continued shouting, the other soldiers shot at her legs, wounding her several times.

165. Major Nzeogwu and the others then commenced firing at the Colonel whilst still in bed, who fell down dead or dying by the side of the bed. Mrs. Shodeinde then fled from the room and ran for shelter to the servant's quarters where she remained until the attackers left.

amuwo1980:
What the hell got into this boys to carry ur such a useless massacre

Much as I like Nzeogwu and his boys; the massacare was in my opnion uncalled. If it was a gun fight, it would make sense, but cold bloodied killings of civilians and a woman.

Chief Remi Fani Kayode (father of Femi Fani Kayode) was Deputy Premier of the Western Region. He was arrested and made to lead the coupists to the government house. His wife called the Premier, Chief Akintola to warn him that soldiers were on the way to arrest him.

Chief Fani-Kayode witnessed the killing of his friend S.L. Akintola by the mutineers, and from there he was taken to the military cantonment in Lagos where he was also scheduled to be executed by them. However, luckily for him, on arrival at the Ikeja military cantonment in Lagos, the mutineers were overpowered, overwhelmed and killed by loyalist troops under the command of Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon (who later became Nigeria's Head of State). Fani-Kayode was freed by the loyalists and kept by them in a safe house until law and order was restored in the country. ( Wikipedia)

dele1727:
All this half stories with no proof....

Awolowo was intended to be head of government...who read the mindset of the plotters



The plot to kill aquiyi ironsi failed just like the plot to free Awolowo...


All this half truth will not help anybody

Those two I can answer.

1) Awolowo was intended to be head of government...who read the mindset of the plotters: No one read their mind, they revealed it themselves. They were all alive for several years after the coup; some even still alive till today.

2) The plot to kill aquiyi ironsi failed just like the plot to free Awolowo: The officer given the job to arrest Ironsi incompetently delayed allowing Ironsi to escape and rallied loyal troops. Captain Ude flew to Calabar, got to the prisons-and was arrested at the prison.