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Jokes Etc / Akpors Deals With The Magician by statrata(m): 2:04am On Apr 02, 2015 |
Akpors was a very poor man in one of the worst conditions you can think of. He had no wife, no child, no money, his house leaked water whenever it rained, a blind mother; in fact, he had nothing you could write home about. But one day he saw a magician who promised to grant him only one wish. Magician: Tell me one thing you wish, and I will do it for you right now. Akpors: Ok, no problem, I have only one wish, I want my mother to see my wife carrying two of my kids in my Hummer Jeep parked near the swimming pool in one of my many mansions situated in London city. The magician fainted. one word for akpors this time |
Jokes Etc / Akpors The Stupid Passenger And The Ghost Car by statrata(m): 1:48am On Apr 02, 2015 |
Joke: Akpors the stupid passenger and the ghost car Akpors was on the road on a very dark and rainy night trying effortlessly to get a taxi or car to stop and pick him up. The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly, he saw a car slowly coming towards him which kept stopping every now and then, Akpors without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door, just to realize there’s nobody behind the wheel. The car started slowly. Akpors looked at the road and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life. Then, just before he hit the curve, a hand appeared through the window and turned the wheel. Akpors, paralysed with terror, watched how the hand appeared every time they came to a curve, gathering strength to run a way from the strange car, he jumped out of the car and ran to the nearest street. Wet and in shock, he went to a bar and asked for two bottles of beer. He then started telling everybody about the horrible experience he went through with the ghost car being controlled by only a hand. Silence enveloped everybody when they realized he was crying and wasn’t drunk. About half an hour later, two guys walked into the same joint, wet and out of breath. Looking around and seeing Akpors crying, one of them pointed at him and shouted “you fool, na you go jump inside car wey we dey suffer push for rain abi? idiot”. Akpors almost fainted in shame! |
Jokes Etc / Akpors The Holy Toaster by statrata(m): 1:23am On Apr 02, 2015 |
Akpors was trying to toast Ekaitte his choir mistress with the help of bible verses; the following conversation ensued: Akpors: Do you have a boyfriend? Ekaitte: Nope. I don’t want to have a boyfriend. Akpors: oh no!!!! Remember Genesis 2v18, The Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him. Ekaitte: But I don’t love you. Akpors: no, u just have to love me, remember 1John 4v8 “Who ever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” Ekaitte: But how can I be sure that you’re loyal and honest? Akpors: Mark 13:31 says “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. Ekaitte: But I’m busy, I’m still studying. Akpors: Yes dear but Ecclesiastes 3:1 said “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heaven.” Ekaitte: But why me? There are a lot of girls out there. Akpors: Proverbs 31:29 “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.” Ekaitte: But what is in me that you like? Akpors: Song of Solomon 4:7 “You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.” Ekaitte: no ooo, I’m not beautiful. Akpors: Proverbs 31:30 “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” Ekaitte: Why all dis? Akpors: 2 Corinthians 2:4 “For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.” Ekaitte: waoooo, I’m flattered, I think I love you, let’s start with you buying me an Iphone 6 Akpors: No dear, remember 1 John 2v15….love not the world, neither the things that are in d world Ekaitte: omg!!! That reminds me, you don’t have a job abi? Akpors: don’t worry, Genesis 22v8 says GOD WILL PROVIDE. Ekaitte Fainted! One word for Akpors this time? |
Politics / Don’t Expect Miracles When I Tackle Boko Haram – Buhari Tells Nigerians by statrata(m): 12:41am On Apr 02, 2015 |
In one of his first full interviews as President-elect, Gen. Muhammudu Buhari discusses how he plans to tackle Boko Haram while also warning Nigerians not to expect a miracle when his administration tackles the menace. The interview which was conducted by the BBC’s Peter okwoche questions about the gesture of President Goodluck Jonathan in congratulating him on his victory and his thoughts about Boko Haram were thrown at the General. In the interview the General says he feels fulfilled in acheiving his goal after four attempts in becoming president (2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015). the interviewer asked: “were you surprised when President Goodluck Jonathan called you to concede defeat and say congratulations because thats a new thing here in Nigeria”? Buhari replied: “I am not surprised because he (Jonathan) has been talking to international community; United States especially Britain and I think he is respectful of those countries and their leadership but it was something extraordinary thaty as commander in Chief and President that he should allow the law to take its course, let the Nigerian election be conducted according to law. That is all they asked him” He added; ” he signed an undertaking and I think he did his best” When asked about how he would go about fulfilling his promises to Nigerians, Buhari replied; “I wouldn’t have made the promises if I don’t know how to go about it. We identified a number of problems that is insecurity in the country which everybody knows; the lack of employment which is the situation of the economy generally by corruption and corruption itself” “This three fundamental problems, Nigerians know it and we are asking Nigerians for their cooperation and they should’t expect miracles to happen a couple of months later because the situation took so many years which is 16 years of the ruling party’s rule of this country”. He also expressed believe that Nigerians will give he and his administration the opportunities to do what they can. Buhari was asked what tactics his adminstration will use to tackle Boko Haram; “peaceful negotiations or hitting them hard” in which he asked “Hitting them with what? He continued: “Boko Haram by the 14th of February at the elections that was postponed, were according to government calculations were in charge of fourteen local governments. These are 14 local governments out of 774 local governments. “If for five, six years the law enforcement agencies including the military could not secure fourteen local governments out of 774, how can I promise miracles when i come?” He added: “But with the cooperation of our neigbours; Cameroon, Niger, Chad and the international community and the commitment we are going to get from the military, it will take us a much shorter time to deal with them” When told his party members are as corrupt as those he plans to fight against and asked if he would corruption to its fullest, Buhari said “I hope you (the interviewer) and Nigerians will give me the opportunity to see whether me effort will be good enough or not” Buhari reveals it all in one of his first interviews as President elect discussing how he will take down Boko Haram and corruption |
Politics / First Lady Commences Packing Out Of Aso Rock by statrata(m): 12:53pm On Apr 01, 2015 |
Abuja - The First Lady, Patience Jonathan has begun to pack her belongings from the Presidential Villa, reports Leadership. Patience Jonathan on Tuesday after it became clear that her husband has lost the election summoned her domestic staff and ordered them to start packing her personal belongings in readiness for the change of guard. As at Tuesday evening, two trucks have conveyed the First Lady’s belongings out of the Villa. It is, however, not clear where the belongings were taken to. |
Politics / What Victory Means To APC - Amaechi by statrata(m): 12:23am On Apr 01, 2015 |
Lagos - Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of Rivers state and director general of the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign organisation said that his party would be humble in victory. He added that the APC would aim to identify and find solutions to all the things the Peoples Democratic Party failed to do. Speaking to journalists at the national secretariat of the APC in Abuja, he said that even though they were excited by the victory, the task ahead was more important. He proudly confessed that he could now tell his children that he was apart of an opposing party removing the current administration, a first in the history of Nigeria. If Buhari wins and President Goodluck Jonathan steps down, it would mark the first time in Nigeria's history that an opposition party has democratically taken control of the country from the ruling party. Also read: INEC denies removal of Jega’s security detail Results from 31 states and the small Federal Capital Territory amounting to some 22 million votes showed Buhari leading by nearly 3 million votes. Buhari crucially carried Lagos state, Nigeria's commercial hub with the largest number of voters, according to results announced Tuesday. Electoral officials said they were awaiting results from just five states to give a tally of Saturday's election and expected to announce a final count later in the day. "As for the election, we have won it!" Garba Shehu, Buhari's spokesman, said outside the party's headquarters that has been decked out with celebratory bunting for days. But "We are not out of the woods yet, we don't know what tricks the government is going to play." In the northern city of Kaduna, a spontaneous celebration of Buhari's followers sprang up. Young men on motor scooters performed wheelies as hundreds of youths chanted: "Change! Change! Change!" and cars honked their horns in support. In Kaduna state, Buhari took 1.1 million votes to Jonathan's 484,000. Britain and the United States warned Monday of the possibility of political meddling in the final count. Jonathan's campaign spokesman Femi Fani-Kayode said that was "absolute balderdash" and demanded evidence. Garba said the opposition party's agents at more than 150,000 polling stations across the country "tell us that we have won, but our victory is still threatened." The winning candidate must take more than half of all votes and at least 25 percent of votes in two-thirds of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory at Abuja. The austere and strict retired general, who says he is a convert to democracy, has promised that if he wins he will stamp out an insurgency in the north waged by Boko Haram, a homegrown Islamic extremist group that has killed thousands of people, many of them civilians, has kidnapped even young girls, and has pledged fealty to the so-called Islamic State. Critics and supporters agree that Buhari is the one leader who did not treat the country's treasury as a personal piggy bank. During his brief 1984-1985 dictatorship he rule with an iron fist, jailing people even for littering, and ordering civil servants who arrived late to work to do squats. He gagged the press and jailed journalists to cover up a deepening economic crisis as prices tumbled for the oil on which Nigeria's economy depends. He eventually was overthrown by his own soldiers. Nigeria's 170 million people are divided almost equally between Christians mainly in the south and Muslims like Buhari who dominate the north. Buhari for the first time won states in the southwest and even took one third of votes in a southeastern state an unprecedented development that some say reflects more of an anti-Jonathan than a pro-Buhari sentiment. The vote counting in Abuja was disrupted Tuesday by a representative of Jonathan's party who protested that the proceedings were partial to Buhari. "We have lost confidence in you. You are tribalistic! You are partial!" shouted former Cabinet minister Peter Godsday Orubebe to the chairman of the electoral commission counting the vote. The opposition has also complained that electoral officials are partisan. The count is being carried out in the presence of party representatives, national and international observers and media. There have been delays in about a dozen states sending results to the counting center because of logistical challenges that had election material being delivered by air, road, speedboat, mules and camels, spokesman Kayode Idowu of the Independent National Electoral Commission told AP. Buhari's showing in his fourth bid to become president was boosted by the formation of a coalition of major opposition parties two years ago. Its choice of Buhari as a single candidate presented the first real opportunity in the history of Nigeria to oust a sitting president. Buhari also was able to count on considerable voter dissatisfaction with the performance of Jonathan, who has been president since 2010. "If indeed Buhari becomes president, it sends a clear message to the people in government that you cannot take the people of Nigeria for granted and that Nigerian democracy is maturing," said journalist and political analyst Kadaria Ahmed. She said Jonathan's perceived insensitivity to the suffering of citizens caught up in the mayhem of Boko Haram's uprising where some 10,000 people were killed last year and more than 1.5 million people have been driven from their homes. The Nigerian military, with help from regional troops, forced Boko Haram out of areas the insurgent had taken in recent months as they formed their self-styled "caliphate." Because of decades of military dictatorship, this is only the eighth election since the country won independence from Britain in 1960, and the fifth since democracy was restored in 1999. |
Politics / How We Forgave Buhari's High-handed Military Manner by statrata(m): 12:17am On Apr 01, 2015 |
Abuja - Nigerians had to forgive former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari many sins for him to win this weekend's election. "The General", as his supporters now affectionately call him, kicked out an elected government in 1983, ushering in an era of military dictatorship in Africa's most populous nation that was to last 15 years. During his 18 months in charge, he imprisoned journalists and opposition activists without trial, executed drug traffickers by firing squad and ordered soldiers to thrash those who failed to queue in an orderly fashion at bus stops. Fittingly, perhaps, he was himself deposed in another military coup. "His rule was nasty, brutish and mercifully short," the Economist magazine wrote in a column last month, describing the 72-year-old as less "awful" than incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, whose years in office have been plagued by corruption scandals. Ladi Netimah, a senior civil servant condemned to 65 years in prison by Buhari's junta for "doing business while in government", has since forgiven the general. She served nearly four years of her sentence and describes him as someone who "wanted things done properly but went about it in the wrong way". "He was too heavy handed," she told Reuters. But over the ensuing years, Buhari reinvented himself as a democrat, and his four attempts to take power peacefully demonstrated a commitment to the ballot box if nothing else. With many Nigerians upset at Jonathan's performance, especially over their two biggest bugbears, corruption and security, more and more were prepared to overlook Buhari's past, and its cobwebs of military austerity and authoritarianism. "Jonathan made it easy for Buhari by disappointing so many people," popular Blogger Tolu Ogunlesi told Reuters. "It was a case of 'Jonathan has to go and I will vote for anything else'." "Too young to remember" The son of a canoe maker and the first president since the 1999 restoration of democracy never to have worn an army uniform, Jonathan started his first term with much good will in his favour. But it was quickly eroded, as he failed to face up to an Islamist insurgency in the northeast and corruption flourished. His administration was beset by multi-billion dollar graft scandals in the oil business. When central bank governor Lamido Sanusi complained that up to $20 billion was unaccounted for at the state oil firm, Jonathan simply sacked him. A perceived failure to take the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency seriously at first did not bother many Nigerians as most were not directly affected. But when the militants kidnapped more than 200 school girls from the town of Chibok last April, provoking global outrage, his administration's plodding response triggered protests that ultimately played a part his downfall. By contrast, Buhari's short rule in the 1980s earned him a reputation as strongman with no time for corruption or rebellion, both of which he squashed. His image as an ascetic wearing a simple kaftan and spurning the champagne-fuelled lifestyle enjoyed by much of Nigeria's elite, added to his appeal. But demographics may also have been a deciding factor. "More than two thirds of the population is under 40 and too young to remember Buhari," said Max Siollun, author of "Soldiers of Fortune", a history of post-colonial Nigeria. More remarkable is the willingness of those mistreated or imprisoned by "The General" to give him another chance. In January veteran journalist Tunde Thompson, jailed for eight months by Buhari's junta under the Orwellian-sounding "Decree 4", said he had forgiven him and that Buhari was someone "who can help bring discipline through democratic means". Similarly Netimah, who before her secret military trial spent three weeks in a concrete cell with no toilet and nothing to sleep on but a chair, said she bore no grudges. When she met her tormentor-in-chief years later, the pair simply laughed about the curious twists of Nigeria's turbulent history. "I think he was just passionate about Nigeria," she said. |
Politics / Abeg Help Me Tell Bother Jona Say Na April Fool Nairalanders by statrata(m): 12:07am On Apr 01, 2015 |
cum see new President at new month tank god say we do get change way we want abeg make inec announce we do know say na buhari oo |
Politics / APC Becomes Majority In Senate by statrata(m): 3:13pm On Mar 31, 2015 |
Abuja - From the results of the National Assembly elections across the country, it is likely that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may lose its dominance of the upper chamber of the National Assembly in the next dispensation. The results so far released showed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won majority of the seats in the election. The APC will have three senators each from Lagos, Oyo, Osun, Sokoto, Kebbi, Jigawa, Kano, Bauchi, Gombe, Kogi, Niger and Kwara states. It has two senators in Kaduna, Ogun, Ondo and Nasarawa states and one from Edo: The Senate has 109 members. |
Romance / Re: Picture Of The Girl I .... Yesterday Night by statrata(m): 3:30pm On Mar 29, 2015 |
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Romance / Re: Picture Of The Girl I .... Yesterday Night by statrata(m): 3:29pm On Mar 29, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: OGUN STATE RESULTS: Buhari Rides Over Jonathan by statrata(m): 1:28pm On Mar 29, 2015 |
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Dating And Meet-up Zone / Re: Seun Pls Answer Me, I Love You by statrata(m): 1:21pm On Mar 29, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: My Experience With The Police That Shows They Lack Basic Training by statrata(m): 1:14pm On Mar 29, 2015 |
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Dating And Meet-up Zone / Re: Seun Pls Answer Me, I Love You by statrata(m): 1:09pm On Mar 29, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: BREAKING NEWS: Heavy Traffic As Soldiers Block Mile 12-ikorodu Road. by statrata(m): 1:04pm On Mar 29, 2015 |
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Romance / Re: Love, Messing And Ladies by statrata(m): 1:30am On Mar 29, 2015 |
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Romance / Re: HELP! The Girl Friend Wants To Leave Him! by statrata(m): 1:20am On Mar 29, 2015 |
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