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President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government said it will soon recruit 300,000 additional graduates in the next phase of the N-power volunteer programme. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, gave the assurance at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday at a special town hall meeting for the youth. The minister specifically stated that the Federal Government was committed to tackling youth employment. “We did not create today’s hardships, but we have resolved to end it and make life more abundant for our people. All we ask is your undiluted support,” he said. According to him, that 25,000 cooks have been trained for the home-grown school feeding programme which, he noted, has taken off in Osun, Kaduna and Anambra. He said over one million Nigerians willing to access loans between N200,000 and N100,000 were set to get such at a very low interest rate from the Bank of Industry. He further stated that N500 billion had been earmarked in the 2017 budget proposals to sustain the Social Intervention Plan. |
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The former Lagos state governor and current Nigerian Power, Housing and Works Minister, Mr Babatunde Fashola revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari was one of those that looted Nigeria treasury in the past and that he is back in office doing the same thing again. According to Fashola, “between 1979 and 1983 when I was in School, Nigeria had a lot of money in reserve. There was nothing we couldn’t buy, but by end of 1984 the money was gone and this led to recession in country. Checking the Nigerian history books, General Muhammadu Buhari was military tyrant in office between 1983-1985, when all the money Fashola was talking about disappeared from the treasury and starvation took over the nation. Forward to 2015: Nigeria was not in recession as at May 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari ingloriously became president, as the country was the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world according to Bloomberg, CNN Money, World Bank and other international financial institutions. Nigeria in 2013 and 2014 had excess food produced by the new dry season and normal farming policy of the Transformation agenda and Strategic storage Devices were built to store foods for emergencies and period of war. Now, a little forward to 2016: All the National goodies are gone and we now have recession. The agriculture policy was killed, fertilizer sales given back to party leaders and ex-military generals, 2015, 2016 budgets looted by Buhari and his cronies. There is no trace of the N10.5 trillion budgeted for the above two years and no particular project can be traced to it. |
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uboma:seriously do you mean how old i am? it's out of the broad picture of what i need |
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Loisemm:thanks a lot we will consider ur advice |
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Loisemm:your advice will be considered, thanks for that |
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byvan03:I heard you ,bt I won't drop the child any where |
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ifyalways:I really don't know u, but I guess u r good. thanks this is enough for me even if my people find out i can console myself with your kind words. the best i have gotten, thank you once again and God bless you |
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noblemails:Gud day, are you sure you are saying what you can defend if so then bring on the law enforcers to make enquiries, |
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uboma:I appreciate all things, but the best you can do for me is contact me with parents who need a baby who can train a baby, I wouldn't want this baby to suffer becos of my ignorant. if you can do dat for me I will appreciate u, all your thoughts have been considered by me and d mom and that's why am willing to give the baby up, if I have the means heaven knows i dare not give the baby out. so help out don't be sorry for me, thanks once again for your suggestions 2 Likes |
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uboma:hey,thanks though but i no you can never talk about where you have not been, that same way you can not talk about a condition you have not found yourself in. Thanks, Respect 2 Likes |
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byvan03:We're u at, u can send me ur no |
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please my girlfriend will be having a baby in December, we can't keep because of family issues and will like to give it up for adoption to a couple that need the baby. Any person interested should please contact me on my mail address, ifecomumito@gmail.com .it's urgent |
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PLEASE REMEMBER THAT GOD IS GREAT |
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But that’s soon about to change. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Tommie Smith broke records when he won the 200-meter dash finals and gold medal in 19.83 seconds. But his Black Power salute, alongside fellow runner John Carlos atop the medal podium, caused a lot of controversy at the time. The photo capturing the salute remains a symbolic moment in cultural and political history. What many people failed to notice, for many years, is the white man in that photo. The man, Peter Norman, was an unknown sprinter at the time. In the photo, Norman stands completely still, seemingly void of any and all emotion. When people did notice this man standing among Smith and Carlos, they were indifferent to his “random” or “misplaced” presence on the podium. But Italian writer Riccardo Gazzaniga recently uncovered the stunning truth behind Peter Norman’s identity. Thanks to his brilliant article entitled “The White Man in That Photo,” Peter Norman is now being hailed as “the third hero of that night in 1968,” and his story is leaving the world completely fascinated and inspired. With permission from Gazzaniga, LittleThings reprints Gazzaniga’s essay in full, originally published on Films For Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time. I always saw the photo as a powerful image of two barefoot black men, with their heads bowed, their black-gloved fists in the air while the US National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” played. It was a strong symbolic gesture — taking a stand for African American civil rights in a year of tragedies that included the death of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. It’s a historic photo of two men of color. For this reason I never really paid attention to the other man, white, like me, motionless on the second step of the medal podium. I considered him as a random presence, an extra in Carlos and Smith’s moment, or a kind of intruder. Actually, I even thought that that guy — who seemed to be just a simpering Englishman — represented, in his icy immobility, the will to resist the change that Smith and Carlos were invoking in their silent protest. But I was wrong. Thanks to an old article by Gianni Mura, today I discovered the truth: that white man in the photo is, perhaps, the third hero of that night in 1968. His name was Peter Norman, he was an Australian that arrived in the 200 meters finals after having ran an amazing 20.22 in the semi finals. Only the two Americans, Tommie “The Jet” Smith and John Carlos had done better: 20.14 and 20.12, respectively. Norman was a white man from Australia, a country that had strict apartheid laws, almost as strict as South Africa. There was tension and protests in the streets of Australia following heavy restrictions on non-white immigration and discriminatory laws against aboriginal people, some of which consisted of forced adoptions of native children to white families. The two Americans had asked Norman if he believed in human rights. Norman said he did. They asked him if he believed in God, and he, who had been in the Salvation Army, said he believed strongly in God. “We knew that what we were going to do was far greater than any athletic feat, and he said, “I’ll stand with you” — remembers John Carlos — “I expected to see fear in Norman’s eyes, but instead we saw love.” Smith and Carlos had decided to get up on the stadium wearing the Olympic Project for Human Rights badge, a movement of athletes in support of the battle for equality. They would receive their medals barefoot, representing the poverty facing people of color. They would wear the famous black gloves, a symbol of the Black Panthers’ cause. But before going up on the podium they realized they only had one pair of black gloves. “Take one each,” Norman suggested. Smith and Carlos took his advice. But then Norman did something else. “I believe in what you believe. Do you have another one of those for me?” he asked pointing to the Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on the others’ chests. “That way I can show my support in your cause.” Smith admitted to being astonished, ruminating: “Who is this white Australian guy? He won his silver medal, can’t he just take it and that be enough!” Smith responded that he didn’t, also because he would not be denied his badge. There happened to be a white American rower with them, Paul Hoffman, an activist with the Olympic Project for Human Rights. After hearing everything he thought “if a white Australian is going to ask me for an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge, then by God he would have one!” Hoffman didn’t hesitate: “I gave him the only one I had: mine.” The three went out on the field and got up on the podium: the rest is history, preserved in the power of the photo. “I couldn’t see what was happening,” Norman recounts, “[but] I had known they had gone through with their plans when a voice in the crowd sang the American anthem but then faded to nothing. The stadium went quiet.” It seemed as if the victory would be decided between the two Americans. Norman was an unknown sprinter, who seemed to just be having a good couple of heats. John Carlos, years later, said that he was asked what happened to the small white guy — standing at 5’6” tall, and running as fast as him and Smith, both taller than 6’2”. The time for the finals arrives, and the outsider Peter Norman runs the race of a lifetime, improving on his time yet again. He finishes the race at 20.06, his best performance ever, an Australian record that still stands today, 47 years later. But that record wasn’t enough, because Tommie Smith was really “The Jet,” and he responded to Norman’s Australian record with a world record. In short, it was a great race. Yet that race will never be as memorable as what followed at the award[s] ceremony. It didn’t take long after the race to realize that something big, unprecedented, was about to take place on the medal podium. Smith and Carlos decided they wanted to show the entire world what their fight for human rights looked like, and word spread among the athletes. Alchetron The head of the American delegation vowed that these athletes would pay the price their entire lives for that gesture, a gesture he thought had nothing to do with the sport. Smith and Carlos were immediately suspended from the American Olympic team and expelled from the Olympic Village, while the rower Hoffman was accused of conspiracy. Once home, the two fastest men in the world faced heavy repercussions and death threats. But time, in the end, proved that they had been right and they became champions in the fight for human rights. With their image restored they collaborated with the American team of Athletics, and a statue of them was erected at the San Jose State University. Peter Norman is absent from this statue. His absence from the podium step seems an epitaph of a hero that no one ever noticed. A forgotten athlete, deleted from history, even in Australia, his own country. Four years later at the 1972 Summer Olympics that took place in Munich, Germany, Norman wasn’t part of the Australian sprinters team, despite having run qualifying times for the 200 meters thirteen times and the 100 meters five times. Norman left competitive athletics behind after this disappointment, continuing to run at the amatuer level. Back in the change-resisting, whitewashed Australia he was treated like an outsider, his family outcasted, and work impossible to find. For a time he worked as a gym teacher, continuing to struggle against inequalities as a trade unionist and occasionally working in a butcher shop. An injury caused Norman to contract gangrene, which led to issues with depression and alcoholism. As John Carlos said, “If we were getting beat up, Peter was facing an entire country and suffering alone.” For years Norman had only one chance to save himself: he was invited to condemn his co-athletes, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s gesture in exchange for a pardon from the system that ostracized him. A pardon that would have allowed him to find a stable job through the Australian Olympic Committee and be part of the organization of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Norman never gave in and never condemned the choice of the two Americans. Flickr He was the greatest Australian sprinter in history and the holder of the 200 meter record, yet he wasn’t even invited to the Olympics in Sydney. It was the American Olympic Committee, that once they learned of this news asked him to join their group and invited him to Olympic champion Michael Johnson’s birthday party, for whom Peter Norman was a role model and a hero. Norman died suddenly from a heart attack in 2006, without his country ever having apologized for their treatment of him. At his funeral Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Norman’s friends since that moment in 1968, were his pallbearers, sending him off as a hero. “Peter was a lone soldier. He consciously chose to be a sacrificial lamb in the name of human rights. There’s no one more than him that Australia should honor, recognize and appreciate,” John Carlos said. “He paid the price with his choice,” explained Tommie Smith. “It wasn’t just a simple gesture to help us, it was HIS fight. He was a white man, a white Australian man among two men of color, standing up in the moment of victory, all in the name of the same thing.” Empire Runners Only in 2012 did the Australian Parliament approve a motion to formally apologize to Peter Norman and rewrite him into history with this statement: This House “recognises the extraordinary athletic achievements of the late Peter Norman, who won the silver medal in the 200 meters sprint running event at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, in a time of 20.06 seconds, which still stands as the Australian record.” “Acknowledges the bravery of Peter Norman in donning an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on the podium, in solidarity with African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who gave the ‘black power’ salute.” “Apologises to Peter Norman for the wrong done by Australia in failing to send him to the 1972 Munich Olympics, despite repeatedly qualifying; and belatedly recognises the powerful role that Peter Norman played in furthering racial equality.” However, perhaps, the words that remind us best of Peter Norman are simply his own words when describing the reasons for his gesture, in the documentary film Salute , written, directed and produced by his nephew Matt. “I couldn’t see why a black man couldn’t drink the same water from a water fountain, take the same bus or go to the same school as a white man. There was a social injustice that I couldn’t do anything for from where I was, but I certainly hated it. It has been said that sharing my silver medal with that incident on the victory dais detracted from my performance. On the contrary. I have to confess, I was rather proud to be part of it.” When even today it seems the fight for human rights and equality is never-ending, and innocent lives are being taken, we have to remember the people that have already made self-sacrifices, like Peter Norman, and try to emulate their example. Equality and justice is not a single community’s fight, it’s everyone’s. So this October, when I’ll be in San Jose, I am going to visit the Olympic Black Power statue on the San Jose State University campus, and that empty podium step will remind me of a forgotten, but truly courageous hero, Peter Norman. Update from Films For Action 10/18/2015: In the week since we first shared it, this wonderful article has been read by more than 4 million people. Clearly this is a story that resonates universally, one that uplifts and shows the best side of human nature. There has been a great deal of discussion about the article since then, and one of the themes that emerged concerned the statue in San Jose. In the statue the spot where Peter Norman stood is empty, prompting many to call for him to be added. It transpires that this was not something Norman wanted. In an interview on Democracy Now, John Carlos explains that Norman wanted his spot empty so that anyone visiting the statue could stand on it and have their photo taken on the plinth, standing in solidarity with Smith and Carlos, as he had done. Peter Norman, we salute you. What an incredible slice of history. Please SHARE this fascinating story with your friends on Facebook! “The White Man in That Photo” has been read by millions of people and translated in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. It was also published in Serbia, Belgium and Denmark. John Carlos gave the article his blessing, and Peter Norman’s nephew created the film Salute about his uncle after Gazzaniga’s article was distributed across the world. Riccardo Gazzaniga is an Italian novelist and policeman. His first book, A viso coperto , won the prestigious Calvino Award and was one of the top 10 Italian novels of 2013. Gazzaniga is slated to release his latest book, Non devi dirlo a nessuno , on August 30, 2016. Riccardo Gazzaniga may be reached
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This man has caught everyone’s attention on social media since this photo of him emerged. The man is seen wearing a pair of shoes considered to be the weirdest ever seen in recent times. The shoes have pointed toe caps that bend high upwards such that they resemble cow horns. Although the man’s identity and where he was spotted have not been confirmed yet, he is being hailed on social media as the “king of shoes” whose rather bizarre style can confound anyone. Some social media users have joked that the man is the one who designed the first shoe ever made and has just decided to reappear after thousands of years to rock this pair and prove his legend. What do you think of the man’s shoes? Source: Instagram
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Defcon1:Wat an info u just gave us thanks |
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Picture of goodluck and buhari dressed in womens' "Abada".Who wore it better? 1 Like
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Flawless picture of prof. Osibanjo's mother.this is what he said on his facebook page "To my mom, thank you for raising me with the right values". 1 Like
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Please carry this to front page @op |
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Even the best knows the best as cristiano ronaldo holds up a carbon sheet showing his support for the incumbent president of nigeria to be re-elected
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Pulse NG's osagie alonge picks out some major points between wizkid and davido and he makes a prediction on who he thinks has got what it takes to win dis year 2015.watch and share your thought (Wizkid-Vs-Davido-Who-is-Winning-Facts-Only-With-Osagie-Alonge.mp4) |
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You were good in what your doing dats y u have been asked to continue your good work.Ba JAyY[color=#990000][/color] |
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Signs of better things to come 1 Like |
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I can't die for anybody(read my lips)I can't die for nobody |
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YoursGEJ:Hey! Be maturered cos I believe dat u r educated(you can't seat on dat seat u can't even survive it if it were a stool.so talk to him with respect) 2 Likes |
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ShehuAba:. Hey dude turn ur TV to NTAi and listen to see things for ursef,woremonggers 2 Likes |
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RichDad1:. Hey!What are you saying? You mean that GEJ had a hand in the stammped,was he the one that called them? Ppl of this life can be quite funny.SMH 2 Likes |
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I discovered that nigerians do things more than people we learnt from here are some examples: (1) We learnt about christianity,now there is more churchs(more than 30)in my street than houses were people live. (2)Our girls learnt how to put on trousers and mini-skirts and now they even mend there trousers so as to push all there body out and put on micro-mini-skirts. (3) We learnt the language english and most of us form up to the extent of speaking the language more than the britians and the americans. If I continue talking e no go make sense make I free una make una contribute to this list ![]() ![]() |
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See what this forth-coming election has caused |
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And my question should be can the spirit of God reign in man again? According to Genesis 6 vs 6 and I quote,"And it repented the Lord that he made man on earth.and it grieved him in his hearth" |
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Keneking:. If not for God's sake I would have labled you to bee mad.So dis iz all u could say about the rate of poveerty in nigeria and the death of a created human being like you. Don't carry on with this type of living 7 Likes |
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Good seeing naija folks from different prossions abi swagger hang about |
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