classicB:
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space booker

yeyerolling:
during my visit to ikoyi prison there were over 80 wive killers der. men still killing dem ratio 100:1

Abegi

Lol

SirMichael1:
[b]Feminist are despicable sets. If as a feminist you can be unbiased and look at things as they are. Look at the world from the right point of view and judge if the revolution isn't about unseating men and 'upseating' yourselves in his stead..

Why would a woman take a life and a so-called self acclaimed feminist is of the opinion that the judge tempers justice with mercy and grant her a maximum jail time of 2 years?? Feminism, to be honest holds little sanity in this part of the world yet so many would rather be called and tagged a feminist. It's a slap to our culture.

Someone wrote that guys are scared of feminists and I try to make enough meaning from her scriptings and found it purely a juvenile attempt at seeking cheap attention, more so still, a failed one. Feminism is baseless in Nigeria and probably in Africa.

This is Africa's definition of feminism in a short story..

Long time ago, men had to do the working, hardcore jobs and all that and the ladies inturn get married to men. The man kept them and provided for the home while the woman stayed and bore loads of children to carry his lineage not to mention the household chores and all that.

So moms who felt they suffered for not getting money at their disposals by working for themselves swore to themselves that they'd never let their daughters suffer like they did

Now the ladies are no longer subjected to giving birth alone, staying at home while the boys go to school, gets equivalent opportunities like the male folks.....

The need to suffer the male folks as their ancestral mothers suffers now birthed the African version of feminism.

Feminism is stupidity as the writer above wrote[/b]

see as you finish "feminism"

NoFavors:
This is pathetic

truly pathetic

Holluwaphlexy:
see liver,she get mind sha check below for your plumbing work

serious mind

A Texas woman has been charged with mailing explosive devices to President Barack Obama and Texas governor Greg Abbott that she made using a cigarette packet and a salad dressing cap.

Court documents show that 46-year-old Julia Poff could have caused severe burns or even killed Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbot if the package she mailed to him had been opened as intended.



Agents were able to trace the improvised explosive device back to Poff on the basis of a destroyed shipping label. A Pall Mall cigarette packet and a salad dressing cap used to create the bomb were also found to have originated from Poff’s home.

Packaging for the cigarettes was found in her home in Sealy, Texas as well large quantities of fireworks. Black powder of the kind used in pyrotechnics formed the explosive component in the device.

Poff sent a similar device to the White House during the Obama presidency, the documents for the prosecution show. The F.B.I. determined hair found on the package had come from one of her cats.

It appears that Poff was motivated to send the letter bombs because of financial difficulties and grievances over government payouts. When it came to Abbott, Poff was upset that when he was the Texas Attorney General, the state had not ruled in her favor in a dispute over support payments from her husband.

Her complaint with the federal government was more convoluted. Documents for the prosecution claim she blamed the Obama administration because her application for social security benefits had been denied. The investigating agent also stipulated that Poff did not like the president.



As well as being accused of attempting to kill or maim politicians, Poff is also charged with falsely declaring bankruptcy and peddling fake nutritional supplements. Following Hurricane Harvey Poff asked for funds for a widowed father and a young child. The state says she failed to pass on the donations made to her at the law firm where she worked.

Poff, who has pled not guilty to the bombing charges, faces a prison sentence of more than ten years if convicted. The case continues.

cc:lalasticlala,mynd44

source-http://www.metrodailies.com/texas-letter-bomber-tried-kill-obama-greg-abbot-cigarette-packet-salad-dressing-cap/

By Adamu Tilde

“Wisdom is to have both the courage and modesty to look into the mirror to see the ugly spots on your face, accepting your imperfections and deal with them.” Abubakar Gimba, paraphrased.

One of the biggest challenge the Muslim world is yet to sufficiently appreciate and understand is the dynamics of the modern world. The Muslim world could not keep up with the pace at which the world is changing, at least for now. The Muslim world is stunned and perplexed by the rate at which old and known frame of references are becoming obsolete while new and unfathomable ones are emerging. Today, a new type of discursive space – one that will foster a very different set of ideas – is burgeoning in the Muslim world. So, confusion is palpable albeit not excusable and justifiable.

The shrinkage and collapse of border where virtually there exists, relatively speaking, free movement among culturally distinct and socially different group of people has led to a cultural shock which the Muslim world is yet to comprehend and come to term with. The melting of cultures and invasion of alien traditions have led to a devastating effect where what was once considered a taboo has become fashion, and what was once fashionable has become out of place. The pervasiveness of the virtual world, by their nature, give marginalized social and political groups a space to organize, mobilize, and ultimately challenge the status quo.

Our problem, in my opinion, lies in our insistence on using old methods that worked well at other times, but are totally unsuitable for new and modern times, in all times. In effect, we are using methods suitable for a ‘closed society’ in what is clearly now an ‘open society’. We live in a world where time is shrinking, distance is ‘dying’ and almost all intermediation mechanisms between people, institutions and nature are daily being eliminated. Information on everything is available to just anyone and no special skill— or, even, literacy— is required to access it. And this, seemingly, set to continue unabated. In the following subheadings, I will try to discuss what the above description portends to the Muslim world:

Information Glut, Ignorance Glut
“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don’t know what to pay attention to, and they often waste their time investigating and debating side issues. In ancient times having power meant access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore. So of everything that happens in our chaotic world, what should we focus on?” Yuval Noah Harari.

Information is the cheapest and commonest means of empowerment and, as it is, requires no policy intervention to be obtained and used, at least as things are now. Much of this information offers appealing and refreshing alternative viewpoint together with evidence that rationalizes behavior(s). It is of little wonder, then, that it is the main weapon of change. But instead of confronting this fact and use the opportunity the Information Age presents by creating and communicating our own suitable alternatives, we are wasting time sermonizing, condemning, pointing accusing fingers and all. We have continued to say the same thing, do the same thing and expect change. And we are offended when charged with hypocrisy. Astonishing!

We have to find better and more effective, pragmatic and practical ways to manage information and use it to create the society we want. Once we are done, we must also have the capacity to enforce it. It is that simple. We cannot pretend to want a solution by failing to teach our kids morals and allowing someone else to do it and then feel content to lament the outcome.

The Death of Dogmatism
Given the breakthrough in the fields of Medicine, Genetic Engineering and Information Technology; and our penchant for empirical evidence, increasing curiosity to unravel the mystery of Nature, accepting information, pronouncements and (sometimes even) religious texts at face value is no longer tenable. Unquestionable belief and passive acceptance is a thing of the past. This is the reality an intending parent must come to term with in the 21st century and, perhaps, beyond. For instance, to think that your kid would accept hook, line and sinker the rational legality of killing a “gecko”, “magana da Aljanu”, “killing of apostate or blasphemer” for no other justifiable and comprehensible reason is to misconstrue “MTN Group” as a charity organization. Dogmatism is busy preparing its farewell speech, tell anyone.

Those in denial of this visible reality are potential victims of backhanded compliment. This was the case of Dr. Zaghloul al-Naggar, a founding member of the World Commission of Scientific Miracles in the Qur’an and Sunnah, who was recently assailed by a group of young Moroccan students headed by Najib Mokhtari for expounding theories of scientific bases for Islam and the Qur’an. In an interview on Al-Jazeera, Dr. Zaghloul al-Naggar claimed that Mecca is located at the center of the earth. Najib Mokhtari and other Moroccan students challenged this claim with empirical scientific evidence which proves that the earth is spherical and therefore all land is earth’s centers, meaning not only the Kaaba can be considered the world’s center since planet earth is actually round. 21st century parent should be prepared to deliver 21st century answers to the imminent salvos of questions from the 21st century kid who will be less appealed to the cultural-intrinsic apothegm “since the Imam said so, therefore Ma gana Ya kare.”

And the mention of reform due to the inevitable influence of time dynamics is been frown at or worse misconstrued to being apologetic. The need for rethinking our methodology of teaching Islam especially to our kids is critical to the survival of our religion. The privilege of being an accidental Muslim is gradually disappearing and the current system is not packaged in a way that will produce a Muslim by conviction particularly with the literalists occupying the driver’s sit in a world that is increasingly becoming more reasonable.

The impossible has now become a routine and yet most Muslims are associating faithfulness to their delusion of strict adherence to the ways of the past in practicing a religion that claims universality and timelessness. We are in an era of democratization of scholarship and the paradox in this case is that the voices that seems loudest are the less informed.

Resurgence and Rejuvenation of Rational Thinking
Perhaps, given the absolute power the Muslim leaders of the past commanded, and given the existence of central leadership, limited access to information or its deliberate suppression, or both, rational thinking as represented by the Mu’tazilite school of Islamic theology might have been forcefully suppressed or totally abolished in the Muslim world. What we are witnessing today in the Muslim world is the rejuvenation of such thought. Rational thinking is taking the centre stage. The 21st century kids are busy asking, probing, interrogating, searching and mapping the limit of faith and revelation and the boundary of rationality and reason.

Literalism would be worse hit in this millennium for its static, limited and non-malleable interpretation of text. To survive the tsunami of the 21st century, Muslims should get themselves prepared to answer earthshaking and nerve-shattering questions. “Why should I not eat Christmas food?”, “Where does fate end and freewill begin?”, “Does the destiny of a Muslim differ from that of a non-Muslim?”, “What is the scope, boundary and limit of preordainment and predestination?”, “For what reason should I hate non-Muslim even though it has been stated, clearly, that there is no compulsion in religion?”. With time, concepts like “Al wala wal bara” would become obsolete.

Battling Emergent Frame of Reference
The great scientist, Sir Isaac Newton in his magnum opus, ‘Principia Mathematica’, proposed later proven laws regarding motions of objects, and I, approvingly, quote the one termed as the Third Law: ” To every action, there is always equal and opposite reaction”.
A mere physical law, right? Well, not quite. The statement cuts across, virtually, all fields of knowledge contextually. That we (the Muslim world) cannot live in isolation, and neither immune to the menacing and penetrating effect(s) of globalization, this conscious (and even forced) choice of dancing to the allurement of the 21st century goodies comes with a price. Therefore, we should be ready to accept (willingly or not) the consequence of doing so. Parts of such consequences include the appealing and refreshing alternative viewpoints. A 21st century kid might just wake up one cool morning and declare to his father that “I am gay”, “Dad, I am a freethinker, I cannot hold on to that your belief system”, “I cannot make sense of this your faith, Dad. I think I am an Agnostic, maybe an Atheist”. Shockingly, you ask, “why?” He would reply, “It sounds cool”. Cool, huh?! It might happen, at the moment, that it is the coolest thing to do/be. A certain musician, author, actor, footballer said so. Blah, blah, blah.

Internet Boom and The Coming Culture War
Gone were the days when censorship of information was the norm and modus operandi in the Muslim world. The era of censorship has eloped with the Iron Cage of Policing Thought to a land of no return. The internet boom is here to amplify discourses that will challenge those rigidly conceived orthodox thoughts and traditions. The rise of these religion-critical discourses will in turn trigger a backlash from conservative forces who fear an uprooting of traditional beliefs and identities. The coming Tsunami of culture war should be visible to anyone who knows what signs to look for. Access to internet is now growing rapidly in the Muslim world. Internet penetration rates in Muslim-majority countries have long lagged behind but this state of affairs is changing. Internet boom is occurring in some of the most conservative societies on Earth, where ideas contrary to or critical of a strict interpretation of Islam are often stigmatized or even punished.

For instance, in Nigeria, conservative religious authorities have played a critical role in shaping public attitudes and establishing social norms. The growth in Internet penetration is gradually changing the monopoly once wielded solely by the conservative religious authorities. 21st century kids are hounded with information that bestow upon them the chutzpah to offer critical appraisal of thorny issues like blasphemy, apostasy, atheism et al and they are not voicing their perspectives from behind the shadows anymore. The Internet allows likeminded people from disparate corners of the world to find one another and create virtual communities. From Hadejia to Rabat to Brussels to Sydney, all it takes is a single click from 50-naira data. But is the virtual world the only safe refuge? No. The virtual world connects people who then proceed, in most cases, to establish offline connections and build social cohesion. The Iron Cage can no longer trap the 21st century kid. He is a citizen of a world that extends beyond his visual ambience. When he/she is stigmatized and ostracized in his native community for being intransigent towards the Iron Cage, there are now available tickets that can fly him/her to the other side of the Atlantic.

The Way Forward
Dear parent (experienced and intending ones), I am not a Prophet of Doom. These are just some of the uncomfortable truths that we may not wish to read or hear. It has always been our habit to dismiss anything we cannot comprehend with a wave of the hand as a heresy or taking the lazy route: finding consolation in exercise that would prevent us from thinking and taking the needed precaution, resorting to prayer like “God forbid, it is not my portion, I reject it, Allah kar kasa naga wannan lokaci”, and their cousins in illogicality. We are no stranger to complacency and indolence. Well, for your information, God does not work according to our whims. This needs no elucidation, I suppose.

What are ahead of us, if we really want to see our kids in our own image (to be and remain Muslims in the truest sense of the word), are two suggestions:

First of all, to embark on a journey to, and delve into, the muddle water of modern knowledge, no matter how ‘dirty’ we think it is. We should be part of knowledge producers not just mere consumers. We have to thoroughly study, understand and appreciate science. What is it? What does it seek to address or achieve? What are its limits? What are its truths and contradictions? How does it arrive at its conclusion?

Secondly, there is an exigent need to go back to our inherited tradition, re-read and re-interpret it and thoroughly understand and appreciate its essence— we can then come up with mechanisms and methodologies that do NOT work against science, but seek to harmonize the two for the benefits of our shared humanity. John F. Kennedy was quoted to have said: ” The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”. We all know that the metaphorical ‘roof’ is getting damaged by the day, and the sun is still shining so favorably.

source-http://www.metrodailies.com/making-21st-century-muslim-kid/

kendylet:
and she seem nice o... always smiling and cheerful in our office!

do you know her

apexJ:
forged

tell him oh

Cc:lalasticlala,seun

On the Need for Mentorship
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Mentorship, according to Wikipedia “is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person (known as a mentor) helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person (known as a mentee/protégé). The mentor may be older or younger than the person being mentored, but he or she must have a certain area of expertise. It is a learning and development partnership between someone with vast experience and someone who wants to learn.”
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Today more than ever, there is an urgent need for mentoring due to the variety of issues that people have to deal with. Yet unfortunately, there is a clear lack of mentoring opportunities both for the mentors and the mentees and as a result of this, the society as a whole loses.
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The reasons for these challenges can be divided into two: Mentors’ challenge and Mentees’ challenge.
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On the side of the Mentors, there is an ever increasing pressure to balance the numerous career, family and individual goals in a world that keeps moving at a rate faster than is expected. This leaves mentors with little time to spare to ‘support’, ‘coach’ and ‘guide’ those in need of their mentoring.
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On the mentees’ side, there is a problem of attitude and a differing approach to life than the mentors which leads to nonchalance, acts of ‘rebellion’ and unending conflict.
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While these and similar challenges cannot be dismissed, it is important to know that they can be resolved and surmounted.
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Mentors need to become more proactive and involved in both searching for protégés as well as patiently persevering through the painstaking work of mentoring. The onus falls to a large extent on mentors due to their experience and knowledge of the benefits they are inculcating. Additionally, mentoring is a endeavor that can give the mentor a sense of purposeful fulfillment.
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Mentees on their part, must realize that being mentored is not about being handed ‘opportunities’ on a platter of gold nor is it a ‘right’ such that they show an undeserved sense of entitlement. It is a privilege that a mentor devotes time to their mentee and thus every moment must be given its due attention with a full sense of respect and responsibility.
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Conclusively, having more Mentorships will lead to a seamless transfer of knowledge, skills and wisdom and thus maintenance of a functional social order in our society.

source-http://www.metrodailies.com/why-mentorship-necessity/

AN OPEN LETTER TO OSITA CHIDOKA (19 Nov. 2017)
By Mitterand Okorie

Dear Osita Chidoka,
I have just read your short post-election speech on Facebook. I couldn’t have been more proud and appreciative of you. In loss, you exuded the same calm, dignity, erudition and finesse which you carried with you throughout your campaign.

The results are in, and your party, UPP are nowhere close to the mark. It is my hope that you do not see this as a rejection of what you embody— guts, courage, a sound ideology in a sound mind. The Igbo love merit, and in due course, you may yet clinch whatever political prize that you seek.

Today, I have read many who make sarcastic posts in derision of your ambition, some who said you were a good man but the odds were against you. Those who said, you were a good man, but your media handlers did you no favours. It is hard to respond to either group; the first do not understand that if we are sure of the odds, elections would no longer be a contest anymore. I have no response for the second group.

I am especially appreciative of you given how you ran an issue-based campaign, your concern about transforming society through creating the necessary conditions for wealth creation and economic prosperity. Your campaign was consistently issue-based, even as tongues waged, that such are not the things that win you elections.

I like that there was no false humility about you. No frying of akara, or roasting of corn or jumping on motorcycles, all of which end up humiliating the dispossessed even more. Things that degrade and mock the poor since politicians no longer do these things after victory is won.

Every time you spoke, you exuded an intellectual panache that I found not only refreshing but very comforting as well. Many people argued that these things do not win you elections in Nigeria. They said it wasn’t about how good your English was. Sadly, all of it came from people with University degrees. I am happy none of these deterred you.

Now they accuse you of wasting your time and money contesting because you had no grassroot base. And I ask, what grassroot base did PDP have before 1999? And APGA before 2004? I love that this didn’t deter you also. Those grassroots were built by humans, and you attempted to build yours.

I know that you went to streets, to the hinterlands, you spoke to people yourself, and you tried to convince them. They were not convinced, yet this was no fault of yours. I love you for believing in incremental change. Should you contest again in four years, you would have three times the grassroot base you have today.

I am sure there must have been times when you doubted yourself, when you asked why bother since I had neither the state purse, nor the federal purse, nor a godfather; but I wish to inform you that you never showed it. You never showed that you doubted yourself or that you had only half your heart in it. And for this, we the younger ones watching draw a lot of inspiration.

Despite coming up short in this election, despite been trounced in fact, you’ve transformed the mindset of millions. You’ve helped some of us who feel submitting oneself to the scrutiny and judgement of the masses wasn’t worth it. You’ve collapsed the mystery that politics was some enterprise reserved for a special kind of people, those who are ‘so up there’. You’ve helped us believe that the process can be just as important as the outcome. You’ve helped us believe that in chasing ambition, we must not allow the fear of losing supersede the impact we create by making an attempt.

I hope you would look back on your time and role in this 2017 elections, and see how much your presence illuminated it, and see how much you put both Anambra and the Igbo nation in a positive light.

Igbo nwere mmadu.

I wish you, sir, the very best for the future.

Sincerely Yours,

Mitterand Okorie


source-http://www.metrodailies.com/open-letter-osita-chidoka/

python1:
I no even bother to check name because I know say na dem. . Anyone in doubt can comfirm, and I assure you, e go be dem.

lol

datola:
It is possible it was forget by one of the patients of the hospital or some psycho bloggers who want cheap popularity.

meaning ,if its true then that person is insane ,but it was this same year we all read the letter from bauch govt with so much errors.....even u sef have gbagaun...it's forged not "forget" how are you different from the psychiatrists in kano

Just when you think you have seen it all ,you haven"t .Just check out this pics below.
cc-lalasticlala, Sissy3
source-http://www.metrodailies.com/psychiatric-hospital-kano-makes-grammatical-blunder/

nice move by the police

Wes Goodman: Anti-LGBT Republican politician 'caught having sex with man in his office' facing 30 sexual misconduct accusations

An anti-LGBT Republican politician who was allegedly caught having sex with a man in his office is facing more than 30 accusations of sexual misconduct.

Wes Goodman, a state legislator for Ohio, has already been forced to resign after a witness to the reported extramarital affair told the Ohio House Chief of Staff.

But now Mr Goodman is facing a host of complaints after alleged victims shared screengrabs of conversations with right-leaning news website the Independent Journal Review.

Mr Goodman, who routinely promotes “family values”, is married to a woman who is an assistant director of an annual abortion rally known as March for Life.

According to the IJR, Mr Goodman would regularly contact men, usually aged between 18 and 24 and in the Republican movement, on Facebook Messenger.

The conversations frequently turned sexually explicit, with Mr Goodman sending suggestive messages and photos of his Instruments on Snapchat, reports the website.

One alleged victim, who wished to remain anonymous, told the IJR he received a friend request from Mr Goodman, who started discussing “various political things” before a two weeks later asking for the man’s Snapchat details.

“He constantly sent me Snaps and was always commenting on my stories,” the victim said. “He also asked how much 'p***y' I was getting and wondering what I was doing on Friday and Saturday nights.”

He added: “Then, he sent me videos of him masturbating as well as d**k pics. He also sent another Snapchat asking how big my penis was.”

Dozens of men shared similar experiences of their online encounters with Mr Goodman, according to the IRJ.

The politician was also accused of groping an 18-year-old student in 2015 after a fundraiser, according to the Washington Post.

Mr Goodman, whose Twitter biography describes him as “Christian. American. Conservative. Republican. Husband to @Beth1027”, has regularly claimed "natural marriage" occurs between a man and a woman.

"Healthy, vibrant, thriving, values-driven families are the source of Ohio's proud history and the key to Ohio's future greatness,” his campaign website said.

“The ideals of a loving father and mother, a committed natural marriage, and a caring community are well worth pursuing and protecting."

The website has now been taken offline.

Mr Goodman, who has been described as a “conscience of the conservative movement”, announced in a statement on Thursday that he was stepping down.

“We all bring our own struggles and our own trials into public life," he said.

"That has been true for me, and I sincerely regret that my actions and choices have kept me from serving my constituents and our state in a way that reflects the best ideals of public service.

"For those whom I have let own, I’m sorry. As I move onto the next chapter of my life, I sincerely ask for privacy for myself, my family, and my friends.”

source-http://www.metrodailies.com/anti-lgbt-politician-caught-sex-man-office-facing-30-sexual-misconduct-accusations/

TheFreeOne:
Mugabe is not as bad as some takes him to be but unfortunately many gets carried away by jaundiced news from western medias.

The state of Zimbabwean economy has been a challenge but his sit tight attitude and allowing his wife much control within his political party became his achilles' heels.

However he remains one of the few if not the only African leader who doesn't kiss western leaders ass.es and Africa needs more of leaders like him with guts who'll willingly leave the stage when the ovation is loudest.

To some he'll forever be a hero.

He is a hero to millions