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Is it not a sin to take meat from my wife pot of soup without her permission?

Increase to .. 11.37%

This was the first bottled spring water I know

The guy attends Public School . Kudos to Osun Govt

Yam eaters

What type of question is this ?

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized some houses belonging to Senate President Bukola Saraki.

The houses, located at 15a, 15b and 17 MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, are said to belong to Saraki.

However, EFCC was said to be unsure of which of the properties that actually belong to the Senate President and decided to place inscriptions and stickers on all of them.

While 15a and 15b were declared by Saraki in his asset declaration form, it is believed that some other houses on the street were bought by the Senate President from the Presidential Implementation Committee for the Sales of Government Property through shell companies.

His relative, who did not want to be named, told our correspondent that the houses were seized on Friday.

He said, “EFCC had been making inquiries into the finances and assets of Saraki for quite some time. They came to inscribe ‘EFCC, Under Investigation’ in red on the walls and the fences. The irony is that even houses that don’t belong to Saraki were marked.

“From what we were told, they are keeping him under strict surveillance ahead of May 29, 2019 when they may invite him.”

EFCC had, while presenting evidence against Saraki before Code of Conduct Tribunal in 2016, alleged that he owned houses on MacDonald Road but there were discrepancies in the addresses.

EFCC witness, Michael Wetkas, had said investigation revealed that House No. 15 MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, and Block 15 Flat 1 to 4 on the same street belonged to Saraki.

According to him, the Senate President bought the properties from Presidential Committee on Sale of Federal Government Landed Properties in Lagos through his companies.

He added that the defendant made a bank draft in the name of TYNITY Company Limited, which he declared in the asset declaration form.

Wetkas noted that when EFCC investigation team wrote to the presidential committee seeking clarification, the committee said from their records, the only property sold to the company was No. 15 Macdonald Street, Ikoyi.

Wetkas said 75 per cent, which amounted to N123.7m was paid for House No. 15 MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, through a bank draft from the account of one of Saraki’s company called Skyview Properties Limited in Access Bank.

He also said investigation revealed that Saraki made a bank draft through his company TYNITY and paid for House No. 17 MacDonald Road in Ikoyi, Lagos, in the sum of N256.3m.

The witness had said, “My lord, there was a draft of N12.8m and another draft of N20m from Zenith Bank as well as a draft of N4m from GTBank as part of payment for the purchase of House No. 17 MacDonald Street.

“The N20m draft came from Carlys properties and Investment Limited and a draft of N136.1m was made on January 13, 2007 for the purchase of same property.

“Another draft of N180.6m was made through Saraki’s personal bank account in GTB.’’

EFCC last week announced a probe into the activities of the Senate President dating back to 2003 when he became governor of Kwara State.

The commission had written a letter to Kwara State Government House, asking for details of all of Saraki’s earnings including salaries, allowances and estacode during his eight years as governor.

Meanwhile, Saraki’s case is said to be a tricky one because apart from owning a Nigerian passport, he also holds a British passport, which means he can travel out of the country easily.

A relation of the Senate President added, “EFCC is building its case from the CCT trial which Saraki won in 2017. Even though he doesn’t have immunity now, they don’t want to detain him because of his position. They are waiting for his tenure to end before pouncing on him.

“They know that when he is no longer a senator, his colleagues in the upper chamber will not be able to come to his defence and accompany him to EFCC or to the court.”
https://newsscrollngr.com/index.php/component/k2/item/17763-efcc-seizes-saraki-s-houses-in-lagos

Dubai's failures

Saraki, Atiku and PDP

USB Charging port for each seat on the new Lasgidi Bus

No PDP in Lagos

Bizibi:
in the end nothing to show......sw is positioning nothing,we are still backward as a nation and still struggling.

Nothing to show.?.but you were just told that the IGR of Ogun State alone is more than the whole South East

Anybody Davido supports.....

Welcome Mr President

Albert0011:
Moses @Age 12, 'I want to become a
doctor'
@20, 'Science class is hard jare
@27 its ur boy Dj osmoses make some noise .

Mad people everywhere

rafindo:
Wailers will say that the stage gej left it.an average Easterner has a self victimization syndrome as a result of the civil war.we has a people has refused to live for the future.

Before you start tearing me.I am a Nigerian and Nigeria Is my ethnic group. Take your tribalism to heaven and get award there.

God bless you

Good works continue

PDP
Hello ....

Funny

PDP are illiterates
Although one requires a minimum of a first degree to work as a Teller in a bank or to even be considered for the post of a security guard in some companies, regrettably, one does not need a WAEC Certificate to contest for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria


CLAIM: You do not need A WAEC certificate to become the President of Nigeria

CONCLUSION: TRUE

FULL STORY:

The Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress [APC] Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 Presidential election, Festus Keyamo, kicked off a storm in the polity when he declared on a Channels Television programme that one does not require the West African Examination Council [WAEC] certificate to become the President of Nigeria.

Keyamo, who is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria was responding to allegations that his principal, the President, does not possess the WAEC certificate.

Keyamo told his interviewer that the President possesses the certificate, a fact attested to by the fact that officials of WAEC came to the Presidential Villa to present the certificate to the President.

He, however, went on to say that a WAEC certificate is not a requirement for qualification for the office of President.

Is Keyamo right?

The answer is in the affirmative as the supreme law of the land, the 1999 Constitution (as amended) supports his position. Section 131 of the Constitution states the qualifications for the office of the President.

According to the section: “A person shall be qualified for election to the office of President, if:

He is a citizen of Nigeria by birth;
He has attained the age of 40 years;
He is a member of a political party
He has been educated up to at least school certificate or its equivalent”
DUBAWA has deliberately highlighted “at least school certificate or its equivalent.” The logical question that follows is to ask what is meant by the underlined words.

To understand this and put the issue in perspective, DUBAWA examined the interpretation section of the Constitution.

This is Section 318 of the Constitution. According to the Section: “School Certificate or its equivalent” means:

A Secondary School Certificate or its equivalent or Grade II Teacher’s Certificate, City and Guilds certificate; or
Education up to Secondary School Certificate level; or
Primary Six School Leaving certificate or its equivalent and –
(i) service in the public or private sector in the Federation in any capacity acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for a minimum of ten years and

(ii) attendance at courses and training institutions as may be acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for periods totaling up to a minimum of one year, and

(iii) the ability to read, write, understand and communicate in the English language to the satisfaction of the Independent National Electoral Commission, and

4. any other qualification acceptable by the Independent National Electoral Commission.”



Conclusion:

Although one requires a minimum of a first degree to work as a Teller in a bank or to even be considered for the post of a security guard in some companies, regrettably, one does not need a WAEC Certificate to contest for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

https://dubawa.org/keyamo-is-right-waec-certificate-not-compulsory-for-presidency/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Remaining online trash

In a major policy change implemented in early 2016, the National Institutes of Health made clear its expectation that researchers seeking grants “consider sex as a biological variable in all stages of research.” The reason was simple — if overdue. Past studies often focused on males, yielding results that did not always apply to the other 50.8 percent of the population.

It’s not surprising that such a major decision would prove controversial in some quarters. What may be surprising, however, is that many of those taking issue with the idea are feminists.

That’s because among the various biological differences scientists must account for are those involving brain function. And the notion that sex hormones and sex chromosomes exert an influence on cognition and effectively make men’s and women’s brains “different” is vigorously disputed — in large part due to fears that the idea could lead to a kind of gender essentialism and feed into harmful stereotypes. There’s even a word for it: neurosexism.

“Can We Finally Stop Talking About ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ Brains?” went the headline of a 2018 New York Times op-ed by two prominent figures on the anti–sex difference side of the debate. The journal Nature, which less than a decade ago was routinely publishing articles that acknowledged the presence of genetic sex differences in the brain and other organs, ran an article in its February 27, 2019, issue entitled “Neurosexism: The Myth That Men and Women Have Different Brains.” The piece was a book review of The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain by Gina Rippon, a professor of cognitive neuroimaging in the U.K.

When neuroscientist Larry Cahill read the article, his first response was, “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

Cahill, a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California at Irvine, is considered one of the world’s leading researchers on the influence of biological sex. He was accustomed to seeing popular books written by what he calls “ideologues.” But what stuck in his craw this time was that Nature had lent its imprimatur to a review that, aside from containing a multitude of what he considered misleading statements, was subtitled “the hunt for male and female distinctions inside the skull is a lesson in bad research practice.”

Cahill doesn’t do a lot of writing for lay publications. But on March 29, he published an article in Quillette entitled “Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences.” In it, he laid out some of the history of the field (it’s a short history, he says, since until about two decades ago, few people even thought to study the differences) and pointed out the inherent fallacy of equating such research with neurosexism. “By constantly denying and trivializing and even vilifying research into biologically-based sex influences on the brain,” he wrote, “[the anti–sex difference contingent is] in fact advocating for biomedical research to retain its male subject–dominated status quo so disproportionately harmful to women.”

I first met Cahill a year ago when I visited him in his UC Irvine office to talk about how his research related to theories about male brains being genetically predisposed to activities like computer coding. (His answer basically amounted to “it’s complicated.”) When I saw his piece, I was curious about what prompted him to write it and, moreover, why he did so in Quillette, a digital outlet that bills itself as “platform for free thought” and has been dubbed “the voice of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web.’”

I also wanted to talk with Cahill about what it’s like to study brain sex differences in an age when everything about gender is politicized and mainstream outlets often adhere to a safely progressive narrative. We spoke on the phone for about an hour last week. This is a condensed version of our conversation.

Meghan Daum: Why did you choose to publish in Quillette?
Larry Cahill: Because the editor asked me. The New York Times didn’t ask me. Nature didn’t ask me, and the Royal Society of London didn’t ask me. When I contacted Nature saying I felt they needed to do something to undo the damage they had done with that review, they did say I could submit a letter to the editor, but I chose not to do that. But when [Quillette editor Claire Lehmann] asked me to write a piece, I said sure. What prompted me to say yes was not Gina Rippon’s book itself. It’s yet another book by yet another ideologue that appeals to a certain wing of the non-neuroscientist population. I don’t care about that. The difference in this case was it was receiving the imprimatur of Nature. That one blew me away. To see that headline, honestly, knowing what I know about the dramatic change in neuroscience in the past 15 to 20 years, it’s not a lot different than seeing a headline like “The Myth That Evolution Applies to Humans.” That would be comparable.

You say in the article that, for decades, neuroscientists — yourself included — used only male research subjects because they assumed females were identical. And since females come with the complicating factor of the hormonal cycle, it’s just simpler to study males. Why was this the case, and what changed?
Like everyone else in neuroscience, I used to fully believe that there weren’t any sex differences or influences on brain function, with the exception of little-bitty brain parts explicitly associated with sex and sex hormones and sex parts. Those parts are different in males and females — okay, fine. But when you move beyond those little-bitty regions at the base of the brain, all of us, myself included, assumed that there were not fundamental sex differences, that they didn’t exist. This was the case no matter what we were studying: amygdala and emotion, the hippocampus and memory, the prefrontal cortex and working memory, vision—you name it. That’s precisely why we all studied males. The view was that if you want to understand the female, then, ironically, the best way to understand the female was to study the male. For most neuroscientists, the rationale was not a sexist rationale. It was the opposite. The rationale was there aren’t any differences between males and females, so you avoid the unnecessarily complicated feature of the female hormonal cycle and study the male.
https://www.vixpal.com/docs/male-and-female-brains-are-different-should-it-matter-meghan-daum/

See gbese

Shares in Italian club Juventus fell more than 17 percent in early trading on Wednesday after Cristiano Ronaldo’s side were knocked out of the Champions League quarter-finals by Ajax.

Juventus shares were down 17.7 percent at 1.39 euros at 0730 GMT after plunging nearly 21 percent when trading in Milan began.
https://punchng.com/juventus-shares-plunge-after-champions-league-exit/

Good one

Reno is an educated illiterate. ..Buhari Govt or CCT

Heartbreak for Liverpool fans as this picture of Sturridge and Drake resurfaces.

Although one requires a minimum of a first degree to work as a Teller in a bank or to even be considered for the post of a security guard in some companies, regrettably, one does not need a WAEC Certificate to contest for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria


CLAIM: You do not need A WAEC certificate to become the President of Nigeria

CONCLUSION: TRUE

FULL STORY:

The Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress [APC] Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 Presidential election, Festus Keyamo, kicked off a storm in the polity when he declared on a Channels Television programme that one does not require the West African Examination Council [WAEC] certificate to become the President of Nigeria.

Keyamo, who is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria was responding to allegations that his principal, the President, does not possess the WAEC certificate.

Keyamo told his interviewer that the President possesses the certificate, a fact attested to by the fact that officials of WAEC came to the Presidential Villa to present the certificate to the President.

He, however, went on to say that a WAEC certificate is not a requirement for qualification for the office of President.

Is Keyamo right?

The answer is in the affirmative as the supreme law of the land, the 1999 Constitution (as amended) supports his position. Section 131 of the Constitution states the qualifications for the office of the President.

According to the section: “A person shall be qualified for election to the office of President, if:

He is a citizen of Nigeria by birth;
He has attained the age of 40 years;
He is a member of a political party
He has been educated up to at least school certificate or its equivalent”
DUBAWA has deliberately highlighted “at least school certificate or its equivalent.” The logical question that follows is to ask what is meant by the underlined words.

To understand this and put the issue in perspective, DUBAWA examined the interpretation section of the Constitution.

This is Section 318 of the Constitution. According to the Section: “School Certificate or its equivalent” means:

A Secondary School Certificate or its equivalent or Grade II Teacher’s Certificate, City and Guilds certificate; or
Education up to Secondary School Certificate level; or
Primary Six School Leaving certificate or its equivalent and –
(i) service in the public or private sector in the Federation in any capacity acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for a minimum of ten years and

(ii) attendance at courses and training institutions as may be acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for periods totaling up to a minimum of one year, and

(iii) the ability to read, write, understand and communicate in the English language to the satisfaction of the Independent National Electoral Commission, and

4. any other qualification acceptable by the Independent National Electoral Commission.”



Conclusion:

Although one requires a minimum of a first degree to work as a Teller in a bank or to even be considered for the post of a security guard in some companies, regrettably, one does not need a WAEC Certificate to contest for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

https://dubawa.org/keyamo-is-right-waec-certificate-not-compulsory-for-presidency/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Awol1:
Is the cost of building materials all there was about the bill?

Why highlight the negative? what happened to the positive?

Are You telling me the members of the NASS sat down just to increase the cost of building materials?

Well, the dullard must be defended.

Oh boy I read article on the bill by Taiwo Oyedele on my way to Abuja. .there is nothing good in that bill