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ChubbyT:
me likey

Thanks jare

Looks delicious!
As a woman though, most of what I was really admiring were your gas cooker and steel utensil holders

Please and please OP, scratch Law off that list. Go to Oba Akinjobi street in Ikeja and see what the Legal profession have been reduced to. No offense to legal practitioners o !

ChubbyT:
Tnx dear,dis ur moniker na 1 in town o,vivaciousvivi

Yes o!

mobuch:
Aunty, no vex o, I only just wanted to bring it to your notice, since u might have had a short memory. We r cool, aren't we.

Vex?
Me?
With you?
Shoooo.... I am cool o.

Btw, I haven't seen this topic before. So no case of "short memory" involved here. I also know without a doubt some, like me are reading this for the first time. Abi na every topic wey dem don post before for Nairaland we dey all read?

chrismmm:
Gej is monkey , silly drunkard

ok......

mobuch:
Sweetheart, this is an old gist na, haba; this is about the 7th time its coming up on nairaland in last 3yrs. Try something new.

Why don't you post a "New" topic so we all read it Sweetheart.
In the face of political thievery and opulence, any news such as this should be thrusts into the face or people as many times as it may be necessary.

tinkinjow:
When people make posts like this they wish within their hearts that this happens in Nigeria. Sorry it won't. Mexico from south to north, east to west are one people. They are almost 100% Christians. You see? No well pronounced differences. They bear same common names.
So stop dreaming. Protest can happen anywhere in Nigeria but not everywhere. When that happens Nigeria will be gone.

Until musa relinquishes the oil block by timi's backyard to timi, there'll be no peace. Justice before peace. Let me ask, will all Nigerians protest for that to happen? Your guess is ad good as mine.

Have you not heard how a coupist in the name of fighting corruption placed his kinsmen in house arrest while jailing the non tribesmen?

Brother, I agree with you only to an extent. Mexico does comprise mostly of a single religious faith which is Catholicism, yet the same faithfuls are Drug lords, into racketeering, drug murders and kidnappings. Not every one in Mexico support the civil protests. But the protests (especially if it persists) will at least bring some level of acknowledgement to the atrocity that happened - be it from the government or not.
Coming back to Nigeria, (although a semi-failure) Occupy Nigeria which wasn't country-wide did make some level of impact and showed the government that civil groups do have the ability to rally together and ignite support for a collective good.

Niwdog:
Hmm. Everything na by choice. Some have food but they can't eat, some can eat but have no food.

Na so....

DRealGeesam:
Wow!!!
He is right saying "poor people are those who work hard to live expensive"
When u got what u need without begging and you are happy not desiring what others have that u dont need- is that not fulfillment?

It sure is my brother!

He lives on a farm, and his official car is a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle. 90% of his monthly salary is been donated to charity. President of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, is not your average president.

It is commonplace to see some presidents of countries living lavish lifestyles, and in some extreme cases, looting their countries’ finances for personal gain. But not Mujica.

He is commonly known as the world’s “poorest” president because of his austere lifestyle.

Mujica rejected the luxurious presidential residence the government provided for him and instead he opted to live on his wife’s farm located on a dirt road outside the country’s capital. They have no domestic workers – they do all the farm work by themselves. The only staff they have are two police officers.
In 2010, his annual personal wealth declaration – mandatory for officials in Uruguay – was $1,800, the value of his Beetle.

In an interview with BBC, he said:

“I’ve lived like this most of my life, I can live well with what I have

I’m called ‘the poorest president’, but I don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more

"This is a matter of freedom. If you don’t have many possessions then you don’t need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself…”

Mujica also has unique views about poverty alleviation. In the 2012 Rio+20 summit he stated:

"But what are we thinking? Do we want the model of development and consumption of the rich countries? I ask you now: what would happen to this planet if Indians would have the same proportion of cars per household than Germans? How much oxygen [/b]would we have left?

[b]“Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

An Arab sheikh recently offered him $1 million for his Beetle. Mujica is currently considering the offer, and says that if he does sell it, he will donate the money to charity.



Source: http://nigeriana.org/blog/99481.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Nigeriana+%28Nigeriana%29

I completely agree with you. (Not on the FTC part sha o .
I can't understand why the majority of the Nigerian populance have refused to accept that good governance is their right not only as law-abiding, vote-exercising citizens but their ultimate right as human beings.
they turn every and any critic of the present administration (no matter how minor) into a full out political war.
Anybody with half a brain and some intelligence that feels that the current government may not be doing their very best especially in terms of delivering a lasting solution to the current National security crisis is deemed an "Enemy of PDP", An APC supporter" or worse "A Northerner"! I just don't get it.
Mexico is crying out for change and with the International community closely monitoring this situation, they just might achieve it.

#GodBlessNigeriaSha

“Enough, I’m tired,” Mexico’s top prosecutor said, cutting off reporters’ questions.

Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam had just revealed that authorities believe 43 missing students were kidnapped, executed and dumped in a river — and he was ready to call it a day.

His words spread like wildfire through an outraged nation.

Mounting fury over government officials’ response to — and possible role in — the students’ disappearance has convulsed the country for weeks, posing a mounting challenge to Mexico’s President amid demonstrations where at times violence has flared.

It’s one of the most serious cases in the contemporary history of Mexico and Latin America, Human Rights Watch Americas Director José Miguel Vivanco told Mexico’s El Economista newspaper. He compared it to a massacre of students during a Mexico City demonstration in 1968.

“At that time, these kinds of things happened: mass disappearances of people, where no one was held accountable,” he told the newspaper.

Yet in the 21st century, he said, Latin America “has overcome these kinds of practices.” It’s no wonder, he said, that “an act of this magnitude” unfolding “in view of all Mexicans, the international community and the media” has caught so much attention.

Now Murillo’s comments at a press conference last week have become a new rallying cry, used by fed-up protesters dishing out some of the sharpest criticism Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration has faced since he took office in December 2012.

#YaMeCansé — Spanish for “enough, I’m tired” — became a trending hashtag on Twitter and a topic of viral YouTube video posts as people in Mexico and around the world fired back.

“I am also tired that the government protects and colludes with organized crime,” a young man says at the beginning of one online video.

“Hello. I’m Juan. And I’ve had enough,” another man chimes in. “I’m tired of so much injustice.”

It’s a rapidly unfolding political crisis for Peña Nieto, threatening his efforts to revamp Mexico’s image abroad and convince citizens that drug-related violence is on the decline.

Students’ case sends shock waves

The case of the 43 missing students from a rural teachers’ college in Mexico’s Guerrero state quickly grabbed the national spotlight as word spread about their September 26 disappearance.

And as details of the troubling case emerged, outrage only grew.

Authorities say the students were abducted by police on order of a local mayor, then turned over to a gang that’s believed to have killed them and burned their bodies before throwing some remains in a river.

There’s no indication any of the students had ties with organized crime, Murillo said.

On Friday, protesters marching in Mexico City carried posters saying, “Enough, I’m tired.” Others held signs saying, “It was the state.”

Demonstrators sprayed graffiti on the walls of Mexico’s National Palace Saturday, trying to break down and set fire to a massive wooden door.

“These are the people that are screwing over the country,” they chanted.

Protesters clashed with police at Acapulco’s airport on Monday, crippling the airport for hours and forcing the cancellation of several flights.

Mexico’s President has also said he’s outraged about the students’ case, but he’s condemned the protest violence. And some have expressed skepticism that protesters are truly concerned about what happened to the students, accusing them of exploiting the situation for political reasons.

Protesters condemn what they call inaction by the government.

“There is a national emergency. This is clear,” José Alcaraz, a protest organizer, told CNN en Español Saturday. “There is a decomposition of the Mexican state.”

Pressure on the President

The students’ parents have been highly critical of Peña Nieto for his administration’s handling of the investigation.

A cell phone video from a closed-door meeting with the President, released on YouTube, shows one family member saying Peña Nieto should resign if he can’t deliver answers.

It’s not the first time the President, who represents the Institutional Revolutionary Party that once ruled Mexico for more than 70 years, has faced allegations of government corruption and accusations the government is too slow to fight crime.

Even as he deals with the investigation into the missing students and its aftermath, an investigative report from Mexican news website Aristegui Noticias over the weekend alleged that Mexico’s President and his wife have been living in a lavish $7 million mansion owned by a contractor that’s won lucrative government projects.

In response, the government said that first lady Angélica Rivera has been making payments on the house with money she’s made from her acting career. But the report about the mansion has only further fueled critics who describe the President as out-of-touch.

The protests over the missing students’ case are part of a particularly “explosive situation,” John Ackerman, a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told CNN last week.

“People in Mexico are taking to the streets yesterday, today and just about every day for the last month, demanding not only clearing up this particular crime, which is very particularly egregious and important, but really a change to the system,” he said. “Mexico’s transition to democracy has not been very democratic. People are looking for a new system and a new way of thinking about government and the relationship between state and society.”

Slain Mexican student’s friends, family demand justice

Attorney general tells CNN affiliate: I would say it again

In an interview Monday, Murillo defended his comments from Friday’s press conference in the controversial case.

“When I said, ‘I am tired,’ it’s because I am tired of this: I am tired of brutal violence,” the attorney general told CNN affiliate Televisa.

It’s a phrase he said he’d say again.

“Naturally, I have no reason to lie. I am as human as anyone else, and I also get tired. I have been sleeping for four hours a night for the past 30 days, and that day I had been awake for 40,” he said.

He said he had just spoken with the missing students’ parents, and told them what he later told reporters — that officials believe the students’ remains were thrown in the river, but they don’t yet have DNA proof.

“Really, when you hear them (the parents), you shudder at the powerlessness of not being able to give them an immediate answer,” Murillo said.

There’s no doubt the case of the missing students will weigh on Mexico for years to come, Murillo said.

“This would impact any country, not a presidential term,” he said. “The impact of this kind of event lasts forever.”

The question is, what will happen next?

There’s one thing protesters say they aren’t tired of: making sure Mexico’s most powerful leaders hear them.

Nj

lovelyronke20:
yea the dress is expensive.. Look at this picture, you will see that the dress is made that way..

Ahhhh...guess the guys on Twitter were mistaken. Still, it looks better on Riri.

lovelyronke20:
You guys will be surprise to hear that the cloth was make that way with the shirt..

Read somewhere that the outfit cost an equivalent N140k. And no, it didn't come with the shirt. Riri is a fashion maven and risk taker. She improvised. Twitter peeps claim it was to cover up her tattoos while trying to look "African" in respect to the White House.

Either way, me likey

Twerkjack - Nice skin tone even with minimal makeup. Not bad. But that background with that car is a No-No. Also, your pedal shorts has splotches of (dirt?). All round, not bad looking.
chubbyt: Hips don't lie girl. Loving the cropped biker denim jacket!

ERCROSS:
And u expect me to believe some men can still be this dumb..

99 iPhones ...
Na lie joor..

But its right there in the picture. Look at the boxes placed around them. Believe me, there are still some love-smitten men out there....a dying specie but they are a few.

Voted o!
Guys, if we can make time to Vote for Miss Nairaland as many as 4 voting stages...let's do this for one of our own!!!

Hian! A Case of 2 jobless oyinbo-looking women with far too much time on their hands . This is what Twitter and social media has caused.

1960chic:
So this boy settled for an albino

It's a pity

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Olga, Pele oooo

neoapocalypse:
Lol , it's enough for an undergrad , I lived on far less during my time ( adjusted for inflation ) and I never lacked. His primary aim in school is to get good grades and learn to subsist in life.

I get you. But to get good grades, he needs to sustain himself with even the most basic of human needs. And he would even need to save for unforeseen expenses. Let's just say I don't believe N10k is workable.

N10k a month?! Dude, I honestly don't know if its even possible Is this just for feeding alone or it includes all expenses like toiletries, grooming, school books, photocopy, transport etc. Cos if it does, you need the grace of the Lord God Almighty o. True talk, no Diss

I am guilty of number 7 jare.

Congratulations Jennimma! We did it.

emusmith:
That guy is high on sand!!!

sand kwanu?

A fancy clutch or Handbag

aholiab:
@op GOD bless ya scrotum and may it never fail you in times of legitimate needs

Da hell does this even mean?!

Vivly:
bae.. you can only vote for one person at this stage

OMG!

JENNIMMA and VIVLY!!!

For MTN, this is an all-time low.
Offense intended

neoapocalypse:
Almost doesn't look like her

Lol, she is. That picture was taken from a scene on "The Cosby Show"