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al ur support needed by Cameroon my fellow 9ja brothers nd sisters aleast ghana made african pround by defeating Serbia.i believe african country wil go far @ dis tournment,so my fellow 9ja lets do it my giving them our support whch is needed.

the match bt Netherlands and Denmark is a mst watch match nd i believe netherlands wil surely defeat denmark.dnt mis out dis one!

line up:
Serbia Players
Stojkovic, Kolarov, Lukovic, Vidic,
Ivanovic, Jovanović, Milijas,
Stankovic, Krasic, Pantelic, Zigic
Ghana Players
Kingson, Sarpei, Mensah, Vorsah,
Pantsil, Ayew, Ayew, Annan,
Boateng, Tagoe, Asamoah, Gyan

gooooaaaaaaalll:55' 1 - 0 South
Africa, Tshabalala

line up:South Africa Players
Khune, Thwala, Khumalo,
Mokoena, Gaxa, Letsholonyane,
Dikgacoi, Tshabalala, Modise,
Pienaar, Mphela
Mexico Players
Pérez, Salcido , Rodríguez, Osorio,
Aguilar, Torrado, Rafa Márquez,
Juárez, Dos Santos, Franco, Vela

first yellow card.18 ' Mexico, Juárez

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i prefer dose guys @ children role cos dey r vry funny nd crazy.

Why is EFCC trying to bring Ibori
to Nigeria? They could not catch
him when he was in Nigeria. He
was above the law in Nigeria. I
think EFCC should focus on other
high level criminals in Nigeria
and let UK serve Ibori justice.
Unless Madam Waziri is truely a
joker?

Kid who smokes two packs of
cigarettes a day. The Sumatran
toddler was first given a
cigarette when he was just 18
months

Officials of the Lagos State
Government have arrested an
84-year old woman at Lekki
area of Lagos State, Nigeria for
allegedly selling babies while
her orphanage home that
served as a baby factory was
shut.
Mrs. Theresa Marques, the
suspect, who recently suffered a
stroke was arrested and
brought to the Lagos State
Government Secretariat, Alausa,
Ikeja, yesterday in the Lagos
Ambulance Service bus to keep
her in healthy condition.
Officials of the Social
Department, Ministry of Youth,
Sports and Social Development
had first stormed the orphanage
home at Block 380, Jakande
Estate, Lekki on Tuesday and
rescued two new born babies,
two boys and arrested some
young women found at the
orphanage.
She was said to have been
granted license by the state
government some years ago to
operate an orphanage under the
name Ife-Oluwa Orphanage
Home but 84-year old Marques
now runs the orphanage along
with an unapproved Maternity
centre where babies are being
delivered. She also has a school
there.
Following the development, the
state government had revoked
the license of the orphanage
and shut it down after rescuing
some children from the Home.
Officials of the state
government claimed that they
got a tip off from some
members of public that the
woman allegedly collected
money from people before
handing over babies to them in
the guise of adoption.
The act contradicts
government ’s law which
prohibits that money should be
collected before giving out
children for adoption. Also, the
exchange of the babies is
without government ’s notice,
an act that is criminal under the
law.
Senior Special Assistant to the
Governor on Youth and Social
Development, Mrs Busola
Ogunkoya, who led the team
said government was informed
that the old woman was
making money through giving
out of babies to intended
adopters without government ’s
notice.
Unconfirmed reports had it that
the woman allegedly harboured
young men and women who
engaged in sex in order to
produce children for her
orphanage which are then
given out. Marques, however
denied that she collected money
from intended adopters before
handing the children over to
them but confessed that she
asked them for donations
which were in most cases
around N100,000, N200,000,
among others, adding that this
was always done after the
process of adoption had been
completed.
One of the babies rescued from
Mrs. Theressa Marques.
She admitted that some young
girls with pregnancy come to
her for help since they had
nowhere to go, saying that in
such cases, she used to rent
apartment for them and pay for
their ante-natal services and
their delivery.
After they had delivered, she
would then ask the mothers if
they wanted the babies or not,
while those who wanted their
babies were allowed to go and
those who did not want them
would hand them over to her
after they had sworn to an
afidavit that they did not want
the babies.
According to her, it is such
babies left in her care that she
gives out to interested adopters
without government ’s consent.
Two of the new born babies
discovered in the home were
born last Sunday but their
mothers were nowhere to be
found. Marques said their
mothers had gone to court to
swear to an afidavit that they
did not want the children and
after two days, the women had
not still come back from the
court.
A medical doctor was also
arrested at the Maternity
belonging to the octogenarian
and had been detained at the
taskforce office Alausa, Ikeja.
He was caught in a private
room in the hospital with a
young lady half naked, while
himself was scantily dressed.
Children handed over to the old
woman were allegedly sold to
those in need of children
without following
government’s laid down
procedure.
Special Adviser to the Governor
on Youth, Sports and Social
Development, Dr. Dolapo Badru
told P.M.NEWS that lots of
illegality were being
perpetrated by some people in
the state under the guise that
they were operating orphanage
homes.
“ They are giving us bad name.
As people operating
orphanages, they are seen as
part of government. They make
things difficult for people
looking for children in order to
make them cough out some
money. We have been on their
trail for long. ’
“Two different babies with two
different mothers were rescued.
We will get to the root of this
matter, ” he stated.

It may sound odd, but the
World Health Organisation says
more girls than boys smoke
tobacco; giving new reasons
why the anti-tobacco crusade
must now address the
womenfolk.
When on Friday, WHO called for
a special protection of women
and girls against tobacco, it was
not as if the organisation had
assumed the other members of
the society needed not to be
shielded from the harmful
effects of what is perceived
globally to be an addictive
consumption.
It was because global
researches have indicated a
growing, worrisome trend in
the habit of women and girls
who take tobacco as a thing of
glamour and status. WHO ’s new
direction of campaign is to
press home the focus of this
year ’s World Tobacco Day.
WHO’s Director-General, Dr.
Margaret Chan, said, “The trends
in some countries are
extremely worrisome,” adding,
“Tobacco use is neither
liberating nor glamorous. It is
addictive and deadly. ”
This 2010 campaign theme,
“ Gender and tobacco with an
emphasis on marketing to
women, focuses on the harmful
effects of tobacco marketing
towards women and girls. It
also highlights the need for
governments to ban all tobacco
advertising, promotion and
sponsorship and to eliminate
tobacco smoke in all public and
work places as provided in the
WHO Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control, ” according to
the global health body.
Nigeria, where the campaign
against smoking has been
gaining ground through the
efforts of the Environmental
Rights Action, is ranked among
countries which WHO Director-
General said the trend is pretty
worrisome.
Smoking may be one habit that
is generally perceived to be rife
among males, but a recent
survey, according to WHO,
shows that there is a growing
rate of tobacco use amongst
girls and women. Women and
girls are said to represent 20
per cent global smoking
population.
“In half of the 151 countries
recently surveyed for trends in
tobacco use among young
people, approximately as many
girls uses tobacco as boys. More
girls use tobacco than boys in
some of the countries, including
Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Cook
Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria
and Uruguay.
“Women are a major target for
the tobacco industry in its
effort to recruit new users to
replace those who will quit or
die prematurely from tobacco-
related diseases. The leading
preventable cause of death,
tobacco use kills more than five
million people every year,
about 1.5 million of whom are
women, ” says WHO on Friday.
And what is the nexus between
tobacco and women? Or better
still; what is the attraction?
After strategic manners in
which the anti-smoking
campaigners across the world
had tackled the recruitment of
youths into smoking by
tobacco manufacturers and
marketers, there is said to be a
new path manufacturers and
marketers are following to
force smoke down the throats
of women. By linking smoking
with beauty, young girls are
easily fascinated and are
consequently recruited into the
habit.
Analysts are of the view that
the same method employed in
using the media to present slim
girls as paragon of African
beauty is being promoted to
make young girls believe that
their beauty is incomplete
without tobacco addiction.
But it is not only those who
engage in the practical habit of
direct smoking that are
considered to be smokers.
Passive smokers abount
through their inhaling of
smokes in public places.
The inclusion of Nigeria
amongst countries considered
to be having a disturbing rate
of smoking girls further
reinforces the points being
raised by Nigerian crusaders
that the government needs to
act fast before tobacco-related
diseases add to its alleged
unenviable record in health
management.
Programme Manager of the
Environmental Rights in
Nigeria, an affiliate of the
Friends of the Earth, Mr.
Akinbode Oluwafemi, said the
focus on the need to save
women and girls from smoking,
which is the theme of this
year ’s tobacco day, should
compel some persons in high
places to act fast.
“It will interest you that the
chairman of the Senate
Committee on Health, Senator
Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, is a
woman. And we believe that
where the interests of women
are concerned, a woman in the
status of the senator should use
her position to ensure the
welfare of her fellow
womenfolk, ” say Oluwafemi.
His call is on the strength of a
bill which was said to have
been presented to the Senate by
a member, Senator
Olorunnimbe Mamora which,
according to him, is yet to be
passed into law.
Among other things, the bill
seeks to ban smoking in public
and end all forms of promotion
of the product in the country.
Mamora, who spoke with our
correspondent on Sunday, said
there had been deliberate
moves to scuttle the bill at the
National Assembly, adding that
some of his colleagues who
swore to defend the wellbeing
of Nigerians were engaging in
acts that are inconsistent with
their oath of office.
Mamora said, “No amount of
propaganda; no amount of
purported job creation by the
British American Tobacco can
justify the number of lives
being destroyed through the
use of tobacco. This is because
certain incontrovertible
evidence have been established
linking tobacco use to various
diseases. ”
In a separate statement on the
2010 World Tobacco Day,
Oluwafemi called for the
passing into law of the bill as a
sign of government ’s readiness
to recognise the global concern
for the health of its citizenry.
He stated, “It is a fact that
dangers are associated with
smoking. The World Health
Organisation estimated that 5.4
million people die every year
due to tobacco-related diseases,
with majority of these deaths
happening in developing
countries.
“Tobacco is the only consumer
product that is guaranteed to
kill half its consumers if used
according to manufacturers ’
intention. It contains more than
4,000 dangerous chemicals
harmful to the body.
“It is also a fact that stringent
measures aimed at reducing
smoking in Europe and America
have driven the tobacco
industry to developing
countries like Nigeria, where
the industry continues to flout
regulations, marketing to
young and impressionable
youths, and hooking them on
smoking. ”
Indeed, another recent survey,
according to Oluwafemi, also
shows that two persons die
each day in Lagos hospitals as a
result of tobacco-related
ailments.
With the theme of this year’s
event, many expect that the
focus will now shift to
demystifying those messages
being sold to girls which make
them embrace smoking as a
way of upping their beauty
profiles.
Perhaps, that will compel
manufacturers and marketers to
also review strategies. But then,
the health of the citizenry is at
the centre of it all.

Concerned parents in Nigeria
have called on the Actors Guild
of Nigeria, AGN, Association of
Movie Producers, AMP and other
stakeholders in the film
industry to call popular pint-
sized actors, Chinedu ‘Aki’
Ikedieze and Osita ‘Pawpaw’
Iheme to order.
The actors, who joined the
movie industry almost at the
same time, are giving parents
concern over the roles they play
in movies.
Their argument is that the
actors should play a consistent
role in movies; they either take
the role of kids or that of adults.
The parents said that since they
[Akin & Pawpaw] started as
kids in their first movie, a lot of
kids at home see them as peers
and as a result imitate most of
the things they do in movies.
But now that the actors take
romantic roles and other adult
roles that children shouldn ’t
emulate, the parents want the
authorities concerned to call
them to order before the
situation gets out of hand.
“This attitude of theirs is
becoming a threat to us because
children don ’t want to believe
that they are adults. The
advertisement they also did
with sweet meant for children
has also made the children
believe absolutely that the two
actors are children like them
and they are ready to do
anything they see them do.
“ This has become a great
concern that it is becoming a
topic of discussion among
parents, especially in the buses
and market places, ” one of the
parents said.
According to Mrs. Okafor, she
was stunned when one of her
sons, after watching one of Aki
& Pawpaw ’s films, told her that
“mummy I want to kiss you the
way Aki and Pawpaw kissed
that girl in that film. ”
Another parent, Mrs. Kunle also
said that her sons now do
everything to imitate Aki &
Pawpaw; her sons now dance
like them, imitate the way they
talk and walk.
She, however, said she now
keeps a close watch on her
children to ensure that they
don ’t watch movies in which
the actors play romantic roles.
Children are what they view
and have the tendency of
practising whatever they watch
on television.
Though another parent said that
the actors are talented to play
the roles of kids well, she
maintained that for the fact that
they came to the industry with
the impression that they are
children, they should maintain
that role in order not to have
negative influence on children.
Sometime last year, the Actors’
Guild of Nigeria Board of
Trustees headed by Prince
Ifeanyi Dike made a move to
ban the actors from taking
adult roles, but they were later
pardoned when their fans from
home and abroad pleaded with
the board.

Concerned parents in Nigeria
have called on the Actors Guild
of Nigeria, AGN, Association of
Movie Producers, AMP and other
stakeholders in the film
industry to call popular pint-
sized actors, Chinedu ‘Aki’
Ikedieze and Osita ‘Pawpaw’
Iheme to order.
The actors, who joined the
movie industry almost at the
same time, are giving parents
concern over the roles they play
in movies.
Their argument is that the
actors should play a consistent
role in movies; they either take
the role of kids or that of adults.
The parents said that since they
[Akin & Pawpaw] started as
kids in their first movie, a lot of
kids at home see them as peers
and as a result imitate most of
the things they do in movies.
But now that the actors take
romantic roles and other adult
roles that children shouldn ’t
emulate, the parents want the
authorities concerned to call
them to order before the
situation gets out of hand.
“This attitude of theirs is
becoming a threat to us because
children don ’t want to believe
that they are adults. The
advertisement they also did
with sweet meant for children
has also made the children
believe absolutely that the two
actors are children like them
and they are ready to do
anything they see them do.
“ This has become a great
concern that it is becoming a
topic of discussion among
parents, especially in the buses
and market places, ” one of the
parents said.
According to Mrs. Okafor, she
was stunned when one of her
sons, after watching one of Aki
& Pawpaw ’s films, told her that
“mummy I want to kiss you the
way Aki and Pawpaw kissed
that girl in that film. ”
Another parent, Mrs. Kunle also
said that her sons now do
everything to imitate Aki &
Pawpaw; her sons now dance
like them, imitate the way they
talk and walk.
She, however, said she now
keeps a close watch on her
children to ensure that they
don ’t watch movies in which
the actors play romantic roles.
Children are what they view
and have the tendency of
practising whatever they watch
on television.
Though another parent said that
the actors are talented to play
the roles of kids well, she
maintained that for the fact that
they came to the industry with
the impression that they are
children, they should maintain
that role in order not to have
negative influence on children.
Sometime last year, the Actors’
Guild of Nigeria Board of
Trustees headed by Prince
Ifeanyi Dike made a move to
ban the actors from taking
adult roles, but they were later
pardoned when their fans from
home and abroad pleaded with
the board.

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fashola is d bomb.as 4 edo state governor he is a thief cn u imagine him increasing d school fees of ekpoma.wat a pretender he is.

The full squad is: Joe Hart, David
James, Robert Green; Jamie
Carragher, Ashley Cole, Rio
Ferdinand, Glen Johnson, Ledley
King, John Terry, Matthew Upson,
Stephen Warnock; Gareth Barry,
Michael Carrick, Joe Cole, Steven
Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Aaron
Lennon, James Milner, Shaun
Wright-Phillips; Peter Crouch,
Jermain Defoe, Emile Heskey,
Wayne Rooney.

His Excellency (He truly deserves
this) Governor Babatunde Raji
Fashola (SAN), of Lagos State.
REASONS: Visible transformation
in Lagos state as reflected within
the metropolis in places such as -
Oshodi, Cele Bus Stop along
Oshodi -Apapa express, etc.
Beyond this, simply walk
through Lagos and ask any
literate or illiterate person his/
her opinion about the Governor
and deliverables.

Straight up, Lagos State
Governor has whooped
them all.
There's no good second.
Even a blind man can
feel or smell the
difference.

@develop3r:may almight GOD mak it possible 4 us.proudly 9ja

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