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Donalð Genes: I must say that the 24 Hours power supply I have been experiencing in my City Port-Harcourt for over a Month now is OVERWHELMING. I wonder whether I am still in Nigeria.. And the news is all over the Media.
Should i call this the wind of Change sweeping across 9ja...................[/b][b]

Jimiyke: BREAKING: Anambra NNPP
guber candidate kidnapped in
Awka

Chief Leonard Uchendu, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate for the forthcoming Anambra governorship election has been kidnapped.

He was kidnapped in the early hours of Sunday in Awka the state capital; a development confirmed
by his party.

Incidentally, the NNPP had on Friday raised the alarm over alleged intimidation of its governorship
candidate in the November 16 governorship poll.




LWKM..OKWA NOV 16,OGA ADI EGWU

It said the state government had asked Uchendu to step aside as the President-General of Umuawulu in Awka South Local Government, Anambra State.

Presently, no demand for ransom had been made by the kidnappers.

Source: www.dailypost.com.ng/2013/10/06/breaking-anambra-nnpp-guber-candidate-kidnapped-in-awka/

iamdsam: We got Clarence Peters, Sesan, Matt Max, Patrick Elis, Mr. Moe Musa, Aje Filmworks, Godfather and many others.

Though of all though, I prefer Sesan. He got that kinda flavour in his videos that makes me stay glue to my screen each time I watch his music videos.

He got a very nice concept in his videos too.

He has done several music videos for artists like D'banj and members of the defunt Mo'hits Record Label.

Whose your best music video director in Nigeria? Share your opinions and give reasons

kado: http://www.osundefender.org/?p=124647

KirkoBlack: So when will it be available in Nigeria ?

Pastor Kun: The West African lion is on the verge of extinction, according to experts after a marked decline in recent years.

It is estimated that there are just 645 genetically distinct wild lions left in western and central Africa, with as few as 34 remaining in the whole of Nigeria.

Now experts from conservation group LionAid say they are ‘in real danger of extinction’.

According to the group, there are no lions left in 25 African countries and populations are barely surviving in ten.

Clusters of lions remain in Burkina Faso, Niger, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Chad but are already extinct in countries such as Ghana, The Ivory Coast and Togo.

Thirty years ago there were 200,000 lions roaming wild across the continent – but now there are only between 15,000 and 32,000 left.

West African lions have been largely forgotten due to political apathy to conservation.

Dr Pieter Kat, trustee of LionAid, told The Guardian: ‘There has been a catastrophic decline in the populations of lions in Africa, and particularly west Africa.

‘These lions have been neglected for a very long time and do not have adequate protection programs.’

He said the west of the continent is often ignored in favour of eastern Africa, leading to a decline in species.

The lion is threatened by a range of factors, including loss of habitat, loss of natural prey due to poaching, ‘unsustainable levels of trophy hunting’ and human conflict.

A new threat is also on the rise as lion bones are being used to supply the demands of Asian traditional medicine and tiger bones become scarce.

In Nigeria, a government wildlife official told The Guardian that the number of lions in the country had dropped from 44 in 2009 to a meager of 34.

Yohanna Saidu from Nigeria’s interior ministry told the newspaper, they are trying to protect the lions but admitted to being ‘very concerned’.

Dr Kat said it would now be impossible to build up a population of lions in Nigeria and therefore the species should be classed as extinct as well.

The picture is similar in other countries. In Senegal, the LionAid said there are just 40 lions left.

The charity said there are only five ‘viable’ populations – those of 1,000 or more – lions left in the continent.

Three of those are found in Tanzania and Kenya, with the remaining populations surviving in South Africa and Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Recent studies on African lion populations’ show that about three-quarters of Africa’s savannah has disappeared over the past 50 years.

Conservationists say it is not possible to individually count every lion in the continent, so estimates on remaining population numbers vary.

However experts do agree the plight of the African lion is ‘very serious’ and want the animal to be included on the convention on international trade in endangered species list.

Inclusion would mean tight protection on hunting and trade, especially important as more than 5,600 wild African lions were hunted and exported as trophies between 1999 and 2008.

However, conservationists say they face strong opposition from the pro-hunting lobby.

Dr Kat said: ‘We are currently paying lip service to the conservation needs of a specie which is so greatly important to our cultures, history, and indeed the health of wildlife biodiversity in Africa.

‘Lions are not only an iconic species important to very many people all over the world, but they are also a vital component of African ecosystems.’

Culled from Dailymail.co.uk

source: http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/01/10/just-34-lions-are-left-in-nigeria-as-west-african-lion-population-declines/

georjay: MIKEL JUST SCORED A GOAL NOW.....TO MAKE THE SCORELINE 2 - 0 AGAINST FULHAM.....SHAME TO HATERS.....

Mikel Obi justified the coach's decision by playing brilliantly and capping it up with a goal.

It took Mikel 185 premier league games and seven years to get that goal and what a finish.

https://futbolgist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Chelsea-Fulham-Mikel-scores.jpg

https://futbolgist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Chelsea-Fulham-Mikel-celebrates.jpg

airedales: dailymail.co.uk
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EASTSIDAZ: APC and Ngige are already down even and out of the race even before the election.

r231: A Hawaiian woman has been left outraged after state officials asked her to cut down her 36-letter surname – because it wouldn’t fit on the ID card.

Furious Janice Lokelani Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele claims the state has been ‘disrespectful’ towards her Hawaiian heritage after being reissued an ID card with only 35 letters in her surname.

Her name is so long that the driving licence in question does not even include her first name and middle names at all.

Mrs Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele, who has had to carry two ID cards for the past 20 years, said that the action of missing off one letter was ‘disrespectful of the Hawaiian people’.

‘The county has never accommodated my name on my driver’s license,’ she told Honolulu television station KHON2.



HAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...SEE GBOBE

She said the new ID has created a number of problems for her, including not being able to travel and being questioned by police during traffic.

’He looked at it and he goes, “Well, where is your first name?” And I said, “Don’t blame me. This is your department, this is the county”.’

Mrs Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said that she has been told by the country to take her maiden name or shorten her last name. But she wants to keep the name as a tribute to her late husband.

After the TV station that originally reported the story pressured the local Department of Transport on the issue, officials said they will extend ID cards to a 40-character limit.

Chillisauce: Looks like my baby when he was 2 yrs

Thankgodifeduba: http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/09/12/onitsha-shut-down-following-protests-over-ban-on-drugs-sale-in-open-market/

Idi Amin: For how long has this man been in prison

vokal_guy: You are pathetic and ignorant. So the president decided to burn down the billboard right? I think Seun needs to implement some sort of IQ testing mechanism so when morons like you register on this site, it detects your stupidity level and denies you access. And as for 'likes' do you mind telling me if those likes pay your bills?

Netz2: Former Pope Benedict has said he resigned after ‘God told me to’ during what he called a ‘mystical experience’, a Catholic news agency reported.
Benedict, whose formal title is now Pope Emeritus, announced his shock resignation in February and became the first pontiff to step down in 600 years.




‘God told me to do it,’ the Zenith agency quoted Benedict as saying to a visitor to the convent in the Vatican gardens where he is living out his retirement in near isolation.
‘



God told me to do it’: Benedict, whose formal title is now Pope Emeritus, announced his shock resignation in February and became the first pontiff tostep down in 600 years.




‘Mystical experience’: According to the Rome-based Zenith, Benedict (right) said the more he observes the way Pope Francis (left) carries out his papalduties, the more he realised the choice was ‘wanted by God’
According to the agency, Benedict told his visitor, who asked to remain anonymous, that God did not speak to him in a vision but in what the former pope called ‘a mystical experience’.



According to Italian media, Benedict’s decision to step down was influenced by the various scandals that blighted his eight-year papacy, including the arrest of his personal butler for leaking private documents alleging corruption in the Vatican.




Cause of retirement? According to Italian media, Benedict’s decision to step down was influenced by the various scandals, including the arrest of his personal butler, Paolo Gabiele (left) for leaking private documents alleging corruption in the Vatican (right: St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican)
He was succeeded by Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, who was elected as the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years.



According to the Rome-based Zenith, Benedict told his visitor that the more he observes the way Francis carries out his papal duties, the more he realised the choice was ‘wanted by God’.




Last Sunday, Benedict spent a day at the papal summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, to escape the heat of the capital.
The visit indicated that the 86-year-old ex pope’s health was good enough for him to travel. There had been media reports that since his resignation, Benedict’s health had deteriorated dramatically.




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tobechi74: 1) Why do so few moderate Muslims speak out against Islamic extremism? How can we get more moderate Muslims to speak up and amplify their voices?

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All Round Gist: I wonder why Nigerians continue to celebrate 'lootocracy'. They honour looters, terrorists, militants, assassins etc. Uhm...only Nigerians can make a mad man look sane and make a sane man look mad. If he were to be a common criminal, no one would want to associate with him, but now that he is a rich criminal, everyone want to be recognized with him. Nigeria my beloved country! The land where mad men direct traffic and the supposedly sane people follow obediently....Is there really any hope for this country?

On Sunday 4th August 2013, the people of Oghara in Delta State celebrated their former governor in grand style on his 55th birthday. Although, the ex governor, James Onanefe Ibori, is currently serving his jail terms in a London prison for fraud, his admirers and political associates gathered to celebrate him. The celebration started with a Thanksgiving service at the Baptist Church, where the pastor, Rev Iweh Godspower, challenged the congregation to emulate Ibori

LWKM.....NOTIN WAY WE NO GO FIT SEE FOR DIS CONTRY

While the Rev was preaching, he asked:

"What is that aspect of ibori's personality that could attract such mammoth crowd which filled the church and overflows outside?"

He answered his own question by saying:

"It is given that Ibori is a huge success, but that is not why all of you have left your homes and different towns to be in Oghara today; even though the man you have come to celebrate may never know the individuals that have come to do him honour. You have come to Ogahara today because Ibori is a man who after climbing high in the social, political and economical ladders of Nigeria, he did not seize and throw away the ladders in the way most Nigerian big men usually do; he made the ladder available for others to climb up too. And even when some people are too weak to make good use of that ladder, he helped pull them up. That is why you are here today. Never forget that and you go and do likewise; help others to climb up the ladders of life and love." The crowd applauded him and others bellowed Ibori's nickname "Odidigborigbo of Africa."

The three days celebration ends today with a topflight novelty football match at the Oghara Township Stadium.

http://www.mjemagazine.com/emulate-james-ibori-pastor-advice-nigerians/
http://www.allaroundgist.com/2013/08/emulate-ibori-pastor-advice-nigerians.html#more

passnownow: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-22/national/40723132_1_blood-type-body-temperature-hormones
https://www.passnownow.com/?p=posts&id=3417