Here’s The Scoop on the Goodness of Fresh Avocados.

Posted by Dan WebNutritionist/Motivator on May 22, 2011 at 12:05pm

California Avocados are a fresh, natural, wholesome part of a healthful diet. They’re irresistibly rich in flavor and, avocados also provide vital nutrients and phytochemicals. Diets rich in fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of some types of cancer and other chronic diseases.

There are 13 vitamins that the body absolutely needs: vitamins A, C, D, E, K and the B vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin, vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12 and folate). Avocados naturally contain many of these vitamins.

MONOUNSATURATED FATS (3g per serving) – Helps to lower blood cholesterol if used in place of saturated fats.
VITAMIN K (6.3 mcg/8% DV per serving) – Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin that plays an important role in blood clotting. It is known as the clotting vitamin, because without it blood would not clot. Some studies indicate that it helps in maintaining strong bones in the elderly.
FOLATE (27 mcg/8% DV per serving) – Promotes healthy cell and tissue development. This is especially important during periods of rapid cell division and growth such as infancy and pregnancy. Folate is also essential for metabolism of homocysteine and helps maintain normal levels of this amino acid.
POTASSIUM (140 mg/4% DV per serving) – In the body, potassium is classified as an electrolyte. Potassium is a very important mineral to the human body. It has various roles in metabolism and body functions and is essential for the proper function of all cells, tissues, and organs: It assists in the regulation of the acid-base balance; assists in protein synthesis from amino acids and in carbohydrate metabolism; and, it is necessary for the building of muscle and for normal body growth.
VITAMIN E (1.2 IU/4% DV per serving) – A fat-soluble vitamin that acts as an antioxidant that protects the body tissue from damage caused by unstable substances called free radicals. Free radicals can harm cells, tissues, and organs. They are believed to play a role in certain conditions associated with aging. Vitamin E is important in the formation of red blood cells and helps the body use vitamin K. At lower levels, vitamin E may help protect the heart. Vitamin E also plays a role in healthy skin and hair.
LUTEIN (81.3 mcg) – A carotenoid (a natural pigment) that may be associated with a lower risk of eye diseases. Lutein is an important antioxidant that may help your eyes stay healthy while maintaining the health of your skin. It provides nutritional support to your eyes and skin and has been linked to promoting healthy eyes through reducing the risk of macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in adults 65 years of age and older.
MAGNESIUM (8.7 mg/2% DV per serving) –An essential mineral for human nutrition. Magnesium in the body serves several important functions: Contraction and relaxation of muscles; Function of certain enzymes in the body; Production and transport of energy; and Production of Protein.
VITAMIN C (2.4 mg/4% DV per serving) –A water-soluble vitamin that is necessary for normal growth and development. Vitamin C is one of many antioxidants. Antioxidants are nutrients that block some of the damage caused by free radicals, which are by-products that result when our bodies transform food into energy. Vitamin C is required for the growth and repair of tissues in all parts of your body. It is necessary to form collagen, an important protein used to make skin, scar tissue, tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels.
VITAMIN B6 (0.080 mg/4% DV per serving) –A water-soluble vitamin. Water-soluble vitamins dissolve in water. The body cannot store them. That means you need a continuous supply of such vitamins in your diet. Vitamin B6 helps the immune system produce antibodies. Antibodies are needed to fight many diseases. Vitamin B6 helps maintain normal nerve function and form red blood cells. The body uses it to help break down proteins. The more protein you eat, the more vitamin B6 you need.

Avocados are included in dietary programs from some of the world’s leading nutrition organizations:

USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Produce for Better Health Foundation Fruits & Veggies—More Matters® Program
American Diabetes Association’s Diabetes Food Pyramid
UCLA Center for Human Nutrition’s California Cuisine Food Pyramid
Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust’s Mediterranean, Vegetarian and Latin American Diet Pyramids and Med Mark Program
The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet Eating Plan

Now that you’ve got the scoop, get a spoon and dig in!

Extracted from http://www.avocado.org

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My new wife led me to T.B Joshua" - John Fashanu, Joseph Yobo's new Inlaw confesses

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 22, 2011 at 12:06am

One thing I bless Abigail for is that she led me to pastor T.B Joshua. Anybody know that if you are introduced into the synagogue, it's a massive blessing. I come from a country where the impossible is impossible (UK). I'm now in a country where the impossible is possible. (Nigeria).

“In Africa, there are 53 countries, I've been to 48 countries, I have met 27 heads of state, I have seen it all. So, people are astounded when I say T.B Joshua inspires me. He is a humble man, and because of what he is able to do, and because he taught me about reconciliation of the family.

“Abigail introduced me and some of my friends to Synagogue about three years ago, when she and I were just acquaintances. T.B Joshua is a great man."

Jim Iyke denies fighting with hawker in Abuja. His side of the story

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 21, 2011 at 11:56pm

The alleged story was that the actor got into an argument/fight with a hawker on Wednesday May 18 at about 2pm at Aminu Kano Crescent ,Wuse 11 Abuja. It was alleged that the hawker made Jim angry after he asked the actor for a tip after showing an apparently lost Jim how to get to his destination.
But the actor has denied he was ever in a fight. His version of the story when you continue...

Photo: Jim Iyke Arrested recently by Police

The penchant for exaggeration and sensationalism of thewillnigeria, a website run by Mr. Austyn Ogannah, is staggering. It has become the bane of some blog and website runners of low repute who understand my deep-rooted aversion for comments on social networks, to therefore use it to the fullest to perpetrate their aim to constantly mud sling my person.
The site in question is managed from Los Angeles, and I dare say, they understand the legal implications of their unprofessional and malicious article. They are also aware that to seek legal redress in Nigeria would mean a protracted period of time in our courts and by no means a possible resolution of the matter.
To state the facts on what happened on that very day, I was in Abuja and was running late for a very important business meeting. I quickly asked a young man peddling wares on the curbs for directions, and he kindly pointed out the way. Also present in my vehicle was my younger sister and my PA. I then asked my PA to tip him, then another young man standing by grabbed the cash and tried to get away, but my PA grabbed him and the appropriate exchange was made. Not for one second did I step out of the car.
We had a good laugh about it, and the traffic warden waved us on, and I turned into the right street. I also had a business partner of mine driving behind my vehicle at that point in time. The whole event transpired in less than 3 minutes.
I was shocked a few hours later when my PA brought the baseless article on thewill.com to my attention. The traffic warden and peddlers still operate on the last left turn to the street that leads to Glo office in Wuze 2 in Abuja. Anyone can interview them to authenticate the veracity of my claims. Mr. Austyn Ogannah’s attack on my person is a wanton exhibition of gross mediocrity and a clear misguided use of the power of the pen.
This is the last and only statement I wish to make on the matter.
- Jim Iyke
His version of events sounds more like what would have happened. BTW, it was his birthday yesterday. Happy birthday to you Jim. All the best!!!

Rapture passes - believers downcast, pastor silent

Posted by 9jabook.com on May 21, 2011 at 11:43pm

We're still here.

Followers of an Oakland radio minister who predicted that Saturday would mark the start of the world's last days waited in vain for a religious homecoming that never happened.

After driving from Maryland in the hope of being taken up to heaven in the Rapture with a crowd of fellow believers, Keith Bauer admitted his disappointment Saturday as he stood in a near-empty parking lot outside the locked Family Radio headquarters in Oakland.

"I was hoping," the 36-year-old trucker told reporters, who outnumbered believers at the grimy hub of worldwide speculation that Earth would end that very day at 6 p.m. "Heaven will be a lot better than this earth."

Neither radio employees nor radio minister Harold Camping were in evidence on Hegenberger Road near the Oakland Airport.

Although it wasn't yet 6 p.m., Bauer began having doubts about Camping's prophecy when the predicted devastation and Rapture didn't happen in places like New Zealand, where the deadline had already come and gone.

"There's definitely a pre-determined date," Bauer said. "But that's up to God."

At Hegenberger Psychic next door, Anthony Lee wasn't surprised.

"No one can tell when the end of the world will come," he said. When he and Camping debated the question, the pastor told him that believing Christians would be removed from the world on Saturday, with the ultimate end coming on Oct. 21. Lee told the pastor that clairvoyance works best with things like relationships.

Camping, 89, was unavailable for comment, having said he would spend his last hours on Earth with family. His station compound was locked up tight. Razor wire encircled a rear parking lot by the radio's warehouse. Through barred windows it was possible to see boxes stacked up inside, each with a label saying "I hope God will save me - Harold Camping."

Outside, a poster read, "The end of the world is almost here. Holy God will bring judgment day on May 21, 2011."

David Richardson, who visited the station Saturday morning, observed that Camping's prophecy was already "in partial failure mode."

Richardson works at Lawrence Berkeley Lab and isn't a follower. He said he is a "compassionist," and was there to tell people that "if the theological speculation of a fallible man fails, then that does not mean God has failed you.

"We all make mistakes."

It wasn't Camping's first attempt to use numerology from the Bible to predict the end of the world. He had once said Judgment Day would be in September 1994, which passed without incident.

"Predicting the end of the world is a bit like alcoholism," Richardson said. "Once you get started, it's hard to stop."

Edo Lorry driver drives burning lorry for six kilometres to avoid Petrol Stations !

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 21, 2011 at 11:29pm

Lorry driver drives burning lorry for six kilometres

The rare bravery displayed by a driver of Edewor Seafood Nigeria Limited, Mr. Edosa Idahor, could be likened to incredible roles usually played by the British film character, James Bond, as Idahor drove a burning lorry for six kilometres.

The rear tyre of the lorry with registration number EDO AK 341 UJE, burst while in motion and caught fire, but the Edo State-born driver, in an attempt to salvage the vehicle from being razed completely, remained in it, trying all he could to detach its head from the container.

He drove on from Berger area of Ogun State, where the tyre burst and caught fire, until where he eventually stopped at Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry area on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, even against sympathisers’ advice that he should save his life first.

Idahor, who sustained burns, to the amazement of bystanders and sympathisers, succeeded in detaching the head of the lorry from the burning container after about 40 minutes of battling the situation.
But the unnamed owner of the lorry-load of frozen fish was said to have passed out during the encounter to salvage the lorry and was rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Ibafo, Ogun State.

Idahor told PUNCH METRO that the fire started when the rear tyre burst and went into flames at Berger area of Ogun State.
He said he had to drive on because there were too many filling stations around the area where the tyre burst and that stopping the vehicle there could be very disastrous.
He said he had to drive on, even against the risk of losing his life, because he was worried about the amount of goods involved and the articulated vehicle.

He said the vehicle was coming from Idumota area of Lagos State, and was heading for Warri, Delta State.
Idahor said, “We were coming from Lagos when the tyre exploded at Berger area of Ogun State. Immediately, it caught fire. I did not want to stop in that area because there are too many filling stations there.
“If I had stopped there, it could have been disastrous. To avoid a situation that would have a spill-over effect, I decided to drive on, even against the risk of losing my life. I thought of the goods involved, 1,500 cartons of fish and the vehicle itself, I had to drive on, at least to take it to a safer place. As you can see, I sustained injuries. The owner of the fish passed out as we battled to salvage the articulated vehicle. She has been taken to a hospital in Ibafo in Ogun State.”

But as some sympathised with the driver and praised him for his bravery, others defied the fire to steal the fish cartons of inside the container.
Our correspondent, who visited the scene of the inferno, noticed youths and women, falling over one another to steal cartons of fish.
A sympathiser, who refused to disclose his name, was perturbed at the turn of event, wondering why the crowd should be so inhuman and wicked by stealing from the burning vehicle. “We are supposed to be our brothers’ keepers, but what is happening is unimaginable. Imagine, people who are supposed to be pitied are being stolen from. This is a reflection of poverty in the land. Imagine, these same people were helping the driver to put out the fire; but the same people are now stealing the goods,” the sympathiser said.
The men of the Federal Road Safety Corps, who visited the scene, could only control traffic from degenerating, but could not prevent the crowd from ransacking the lorry.

The Unit Commander, FRSC, Mowe, Ogun State, Mr. Olalekan Morakinyo, who was disturbed by the theft, called the police to come and salvage the situation.
As at the time of leaving the scene by 4pm, the crowd was still busy stealing cartons of fish as policemen were yet to arrive. However, the men of the fire service from Ogun State were busy making frantic efforts to put out the fire on the container.

Volkswagen Reinvents the Beetle for the 3rd Time in 73years !

Posted by technology on May 21, 2011 at 10:28pm

Volkswagen has reinvented its cult Beetle for the third time in 73 years.

The ergonomic new design, which will be offered initially to U.S. customers, gives the car a flatter roof, a less bulbous shape, narrowed windows and a sharp crease along the side.

It is the first overhaul of the Bug since 1998, when Volkswagen came up with the New Beetle, a curvaceous front-wheel drive version of the classic car.

The new design is part of a drive by VW to increase sales Stateside. The car firm wants to triple U.S. sales of cars and trucks over the next decade

It said the changes to the Beetle – making it sportier and less ‘cute’ – will appeal to more buyers, and especially men. But there is speculation that VW’s move could also anger devoted Beetle fans who love the four-seater for its curves and perky attitude. Klaus Bischoff, head of design at Volkswagen Brand, introduces the 2012 Volkswagen Beetle

The 1998 incarnation of the Beetle – the first change since the car’s design in 1938 – saw the engine moved to the front of the car and the luggage space moved to the back.

A vase for a single flower was added in a move that clearly brought the car into the realm of the female motorist.

Now though, the vase is gone, and an altogether more masculine image is being projected, with low-profile alloy wheels, LEDs, redesigned tail lights and even a turbo model on offer.

Even if it does win admirers, the third incarnation of the Beetle will have to compete in a US small-car market that is bigger and more competitive than it was in 1998.

The Volkswagen Beetle in its original incarnation was first manufactured in 1938, and more than 21 million were sold before VW ended production of the cult design in 2003. The Type 1 Volkswagen Beetle was first produced in Germany in 1938 as a simple economy car.

In Europe, the car was marketed as the Volkswagen 1100, 1200, 1300, 1500, or 1600 – denoting its engine size.

But the popular car soon became widely known around the world by its nickname – the Beetle – named after its similarity in shape to a large, round bug.

The Volkswagen factory survived after the war because the British were not interested and believed the motors to be ‘average’.

But by 1953 the Beetle began selling in Britain after J.Gilder & Co Ltd in Sheffield applied for the franchise and became Volkswagen’s representative in the North of England.

There were slight alterations to the design of the Beetle up until the 1970s but the overall shape remained the same.

As competition increased, the Beetle’s popularity waned and by 2003, annual production had fallen to 30,000 from a peak of 1.3 million in 1971.

Volkswagen ended production of the type 1 car in 2003 and instead focused on its type 2 models.

The Beetle is now the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single design anywhere in the world.

The VW company was set up in 1937 at Hitler’s request, as the leader wished to create opportunities for citizens to own their own cars. He declared that the company should make family-friendly ‘people’s cars’ which could comfortably carry two adults and three children and should be affordable to every German family.

The Beetle was one of the resulting designs. In its homeland it was known as Käfer, German for beetle, and the model went on to take the same nickname when it gained popularity in the UK.Price: To be announced.

Hakeem Muri Okunola settles "2nd" wife Bisola Lagos Big boy with Lekki choice properties

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 21, 2011 at 9:13pm

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Bisola Dejonwo and her mother, Wosilat Okoya have become land owners in Lekki Lagos.

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courtesy of the good gesture of generous fellow and newly appointed permanent secretary of ministry of lands, Hhakeem Murhi Okunola.
The mother and daughter were said to have gotten the property free of charge.
According to a source H.M.O – as hakeem Murhi Okunola- is fondly called by friends gave the land to Bisola and her mother in appreciation of their goodness to him and friendship over the years.
Bisola was H.M.O’s former girlfriend and their affair was said to be so serious to the extent of talks of becoming the permanent secretary’s second wife renting the year.
But for reasons yet to be confirmed Bisola opted to wed another guy- that is single.HMO long known for dating Lagos known Families his sweetheart from the LASU days Yewande Benson now married had to give him up due to some issues between their differing Faiths .
Disclosed a source ‘that H.M.O gave out land gift to them is no big deal, being generous is his second nature. And if you ask around you will hear of more impactful things he has done for people’
Wosila Okoya, currently married to politician Demola Seriki was part beneficiary of the land gifts as the mother of Bisola and ‘for her support’ all these years.

Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan Imports N200m Bullet Proof Automobile

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 21, 2011 at 9:01pm

Governor of Delta State, Mr Emmanuel Uduaghan is sparing no cost to ensure is life stays the same these days of End of the World Prophecies and Assasin Bullets .

The deposed and re elected Governor just purchased this fort Knox on wheels for Two hundred million naira.

Presently at the Apapa, Lagos port and ready for delivery to Strongman Uduaghan.

The automobile was said to have arrived the country in the first week of May 2011.

‘it is a bullet proof car with Interior surveillance Cams that allows for a surround view .With Tinted tinted glass which the NPF recently banned but then This is the governor of Delta State ! A Bomb detector and other security gadgets adorn the car's arsenal

Omotola not having an affair with Dr. Afolabi

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 21, 2011 at 8:49pm

OMOTOLA EKEINDE PRESS RELEASE

Photo Omotola & hubby Capt Ekeinde
Our attention has been drawn to one big fat lie published on the verynotorious and credibility-deficient website, nigeriafilms about our client, Mrs. Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, a highly respectableNollywood actress.
In the said damaging report that is being examined by our lawyer, thewebsite claimed Mrs. Ekeinde is having a sizzling and immoralrelationship with Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, CEO of Sifax based on the factthat nigeriafilms.com sights her regularly at the Apapa office ofDr. Afolabi.
ISSUESIt is a big fat lie that Mrs. Ekeinde frequents the office of Dr.Afolabi, the major reason given for the said romance. She has NEVERbeing to the said office at all.
Secondly, the Ekeindes and the Afolabis are family friends. Members ofthe families do exchange visits. Members of the Afolabi family dovisit the Iba home of the Ekeinde often while the Ekeindes do thesame. Captain Matthew Ekeinde and Dr. Afolabi are particularly fond ofeach other and do discuss at length when occasion permits. The lasttime Mrs. Ekeinde was at the Afolabi’s house was when she had ameeting with MRS. AFOLABI on participating in the highly publicized,Gaga4Fashion organized by the Afolabi’s children. It is an openknowledge that the families of Ekeinde and Afolabi have a longstanding relationship and Capt. Ekeinde is particularly close to Dr.Afolabi.
This report is a hatchet job by Nigeriafilms and we have detailed ourlegal team to start legal proceedings against the website that hasnotoriety for plagiarism and is known not to have a single reporterbased in Nigeria, the major country it covers.
Nigeriafilms claimed it could not reach Omotola to confirm the story.Our firm, Bigsam Media and the website have a long standingrelationship and open channel of communication; no representative ofthe website tried to contact us via phone or email. It is worrisome tonote that a top executive of the website still spoke to our CEO onMonday concerning an advert deal we have with the website. No issue ofOmotola was raised there or afterwards.
For Nigeriafilms, we are not surprised at this brazen disregard forethics of the noble profession, journalism and total disrespect fordecency. The website has never been known for anything decent. It is aknown fact that the website copy and pastes stories from otherrespectable websites without giving credit.
It is this same website that published a false story on an actorcontracting HIV only for it to publish a rejoinder weeks after saying‘sorry’ for the misinformation.
This same website published several apologies concerning a story onanother top actress for alleging she was involved in lesbianism. Thecompany’s former reporter left the organization due to the fact thatthe website only wants false and negative stories on Nigerian celebs.We are not saying online journals should not do its job of reportingbut we should endeavor to do our job within the line of decency andrespect for the noble profession, journalism.
Nigeriafilms should learn from other respectable online journals thathave been able to earn respect due to the professional way theyconduct business.
This website thrives on the fact that it is not based in Nigeria so ithas perceptual immunity to damage reputation and still escapes thearms of the law. This time around, we are ready for them. They havebitten more than they can chew.
Thanks for your understanding and please note that our lines are openfor enquiries.
SignedBigsam MediaLagos | NigeriaMay 20, 2011

Where is the money ? N20 billion recovered from Tafa Balogun still missing

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 21, 2011 at 8:13pm

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Federal lawmakers appear headed for a confrontation with the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over fresh disclosures that about N50 billion of looted public funds recovered from past government officials by the EFCC can still not be located, several years after the monies were recovered. A formal investigative report on the missing funds was launched by the House of Representatives nearly six months ago, and is expected to be released this week — just before the end of the current legislative session. Key members of the house ad hoc committee on the investigation who spoke to NEXT have hinted that there has been no revelation from the anti-graft body that is significantly different from its past claim that the N20 billion recovered from the former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Tafa Balogun, and anotherN30 billion from other officials, could not be traced. “We have sent them a query and they responded still denying that the funds are with them,” said a member of the committee, who refused to be named because the report has not yet been submitted. The newest of the details though, according to another member, is that out of the total N20 billion recovered from the convicted police boss, the EFCC has, for the first time, argued that the sum was actually N2 billion and not N20 billion. The lawmaker said based on the information made available to the committee, the commission did not refute that N2 billion is in its coffers. “I believe the money is with them,” the source added. The admission that the agency is in possession of the sum - although it is meagre given that N50 billion was the subject of the House investigation - appears to be a positive step when placed in the context of the many years during which the commission has summarily denied knowledge of the whereabouts of the missing funds. Even after the latest disclosure last week to NEXT, EFCC spokesperson, Femi Babafemi insisted that issues of the commission keeping records of recovered loots have not arisen at all. “The EFCC does not keep recovered money,” Mr Babafemi said. In many ways, the wide ranging controversy - denials and counterclaims over the so-called missing money which is nearly the size of the budget of some states for a full year — remains a puzzling episode in the nation’s fight against financial crimes. On the one hand, the anti-corruption body recoups stolen public funds from offenders in a widely acclaimed feat, and on the other hand, the commission stands accused of not remitting the cash to its rightful destination, although it publicly claims that it did. Police denies receiving funds The former IGP’s case, which has now lingered for many years after he was said to have paid out N20 billion to the anti-corruption agency following a plea bargain, stands as a reference point. Mr Balogun and two other unnamed officials were convicted in 2004 under the former chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu. Upon conviction, Mr Balogun entered into a well-criticised plea- bargain that required that he part with N20 billion of the money traced to him, for a reduced sentence. The commission further announced that it raised N30 billion from the sale of properties belonging to two other corrupt public office holders. Several years after the payment, the whereabouts of the money, totalling N50 billion in all, according to the House committee on Police Affairs chairman, Abdul Ningi, remains unknown amid several allegations and denials.Despite several correspondence between the house police affairs committee, the EFCC and the police, the location of the funds remained unclear according to the testimony Mr Ningi gave when the matter came up in the house late last year. While the commission, now under a new boss, Farida Waziri, maintained a sweeping innocence on the matter, some of its officials at times laid the blame, not surprisingly, at Mr Ribadu’s feet. Mr Ribadu has, in past interviews, denied keeping the funds. And so has the police, which is now under its third boss after the removal of Mr Balogun. In a reply to the House of Representatives inquiry into the missing money, former IGP, Mike Okiro, who succeeded Mr Balogun, said that only the EFCC was in the best position to state the actual amount recovered. He was emphatic that the amount was not remitted to the police purse. On December 8, 2010, in a motion whose wordings clearly countered the repeated public claims of the anti-graft agency, Mr Ningi drew the attention of the house to the matter, arguing that the funds should be located and be made part of the 2011 appropriation. The house said that while the police had stated “officially that they had not received the N20 billion,” the EFCC on the other hand “confirmed that the monies had neither been credited to the Nigeria Police nor into the federation account”. In clear terms, the house noted that failure was a “violation of the provision of section 162 of the constitution,” and after six months of probing, a six-member panel headed by Ehiogie West-Idahosa, is expected to submit a report before the lawmakers wrap up their session next week. What is the figure? Despite the investigation, the EFCC spokesperson, Mr Babafemi, insisted on Friday that “recovered money is paid into designated government accounts”. Mr Idahosa, a third-term lawmaker from Edo State, confirmed to NEXT that the report would be submitted this week. “We have just had to tidy up the few things,” he said, referring to the electioneering, the corruption uproar and speakership zoning crisis that the house has been dealing with since resumption. “By next week we should have something to report back, to the house,” he said. The unofficial disclosure, which many members confirmed, of claims by the EFCC that the amount recovered from the former IGP, Mr Balogun, was not N20 billion butN2 billion, now seems set to complicate further the already contentious matter. The house is itself burdened by its own winternal corruption charges and might not be in a good stead to discuss this major national embarassment. “It was public knowledge that they announced N20 billion,” said Halims Agoda, who helped push the call for investigation. “Claiming N2 billion now is something we would like to know when we resume next week.”

World doesn't end: California prophet had no Plan B

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 21, 2011 at 7:52pm

Harold Camping spent millions of dollars telling the nations it was the end of days;

now his followers may need counselling

Followers of Harold Camping's Family Radio religious group spread the message of doom in Manhattan. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP

To the shock and distress of a handful of ultra-devout Christian believers, the sun went down yesterday on an America and a world that had signally failed to end.

Instead of a series of earthquakes hitting successive countries at 6pm local time and heralding The Rapture – in which millions of the Faithful would ascend to heaven before the Second Coming of Christ – planet Earth simply carried on and, mostly, kept calm.

Middle East peace remained unresolved, political turmoil hit a few countries and bypassed many others. But by and large the world's toiling billions, as usual, just got on with their lives.

The non-event was a great disappointment to hundreds of followers of a hitherto obscure California-based religious group called Family Radio, which had lavished millions of dollars on a worldwide advertising campaign proclaiming yesterday as Judgment Day.

The group is centred on the teachings and broadcasts of prophet Harold Camping, an 89-year-old self-styled expert in the scriptures who told his followers that his interpretations of the Bible had uncovered the true date of the end of the world. Camping, who lives in the northern California town of Alameda, has previous form on this. He got the date wrong in 1994 when he said the world would end that year, and later explained its continued existence by saying he had made a mathematical error.

But what made this prediction different was the lavish spending that accompanied it. Camping and his followers spent more than $100m worldwide on billboards and posters, financed by the sale and swap of radio stations. Advertising popped up across America and the globe from Iraq to Lebanon to Israel to Jordan, the Philippines to Vietnam, where thousands of the Hmong ethnic hill tribe gathered together on the Thai border in anticipation of the event. The campaign was backed up by Camping's radio show, which can be heard worldwide, and a website that featured, naturally, a countdown clock. Yesterday that clock was at zero underneath the banner headline: "Judgment Day: the Bible guarantees it."

Camping's followers became a familiar sight in cities such as New York, wearing T-shirts proclaiming their beliefs and handing out leaflets in subway stations. On Friday they were at Manhattan's Union Square station, attracting a throng of fascinated gawpers who posed for pictures with them. They handed out their Judgment Day booklets and chatted amiably enough, given their conviction that the End Times were about to arrive.

But as yesterday approached many told reporters they would spend the time huddled in their homes with their families. They planned to pray for their loved ones and hope to be among the lucky few taken up into heaven and spared the global calamity the rest of us would have to put up with for the (much shortened) rest of our lives. Camping himself, who wound down his radio operations ahead of time, said he would watch events unfold at home on television.

Unfortunately for them, nothing happened; a fact that caused much hilarity on Twitter and elsewhere as the 6pm deadline passed in New Zealand, then Australia, Europe and finally America.

"Harold Camping Doomsday prediction fails; No earthquake in New Zealand," read one posting on Twitter. "If this whole end-of-the-world thingy is still going on... it's already past 6.00 in New Zealand and the world hasn't ended," said another. The jokes were global. "Through Croydon; devastation, pestilence, drawn, emaciated faces of the walking dead. No sign of the Rapture though," cracked someone evidently not a fan of the south London town. Another Twitter user suggested people scatter empty pairs of shoes and discarded clothes on their lawns to simulate those lucky few now living with God.

Perhaps not surprisingly, atheists and other non-believers used the opportunity as a way to mock the religious. Various parties were planned across the US. In Fayetteville, North Carolina, the local chapter of the American Humanist Association held a party last night to celebrate the Earth's survival and planned a music concert. The American Atheists held "rapture parties" in places such as Wichita, Kansas, Fort Lauderdale in Florida and even just a few miles from Family Radio itself at a conference centre in Oakland. New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg used a press conference to assure citizens that post-Rapture his administration would not pursue parking tickets or late library books.

But other non-believers and cynics saw an opportunity to make money rather than jokes. There has been a mini-boom in firms and individuals offering to look after the pets of those who believed they were about to be raptured. Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, set up by New Hampshire atheist Bart Centre, has about 250 clients who paid $135 (£83) for insurance policies that guarantee Centre and others will care for their animals when they ascend. Others paid out to sign up with websites that would send out farewell letters to friends and relations left behind.

But there is a serious side. Camping seemed entirely genuine in his beliefs, enough to spend a small fortune promoting them. While others may be making money out of believing in Doomsday, Camping is not one of them. Many experts have worried about the psychological impact on his followers who are suddenly confronted with the collapse of their belief system. Some Christian pastors planned to gather outside Family Radio to counsel any distraught members who showed up wondering why they – and the world – were still there.

Camping himself admitted he had pretty much staked everything on his fervently held belief. "There is no plan B," he told Reuters late last week. Which is a shame. As the day progressed in California last night with no global mega-quake in sight, he and his followers needed one.

Nigerian Woman pours Boiling Water on 10-Year-Old Niece in Accra

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 21, 2011 at 7:17pm

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A 32-year-old Nigerian mother of three has been arrested and detained by the Tesano Divisional Police Command over the callous abuse of her 10-year-old niece, Esther Toby, a class 5 pupil of New Jerusalem International School at Tabora in Accra. Chinyere Toby Oburoh, the victim’s aunt, on Friday, April 29, 2011, became offended over a trivial issue and slapped little Esther’s face. Esther, who dodged a second slap, got her auntie more infuriated, leading to the woman pouring hot water meant to prepare ‘eba,’ a common staple prepared with gari, on her. Esther, narrating her story, told the Tesano Police that Auntie Chinyere, who was then boiling water to prepare ‘eba’, went to the kitchen, brought out a bowl of hot water and poured it on her back. But Chinyere’s husband, Kingsley Oburoh, who was arrested alongside his wife for abetment, told police the bruises on the back of his ‘daughter’ were sores resulting from prickly heat. “She and her mother confirmed to me that it is heat rashes,” Kingsley told police. Kingsley said he was not in the house when the incident took place but when he returned and saw the girl’s condition and asked what the problem was, he was simply told by his wife and the girl that the blisters were heat rashes. When police indicated that the child would be sent back to her home country Nigeria, Kingsley said Esther was better off in their care since they gave her motherly and fatherly attention. Chinyere however said she did not know what came over her and that she only threw the water kettle at her niece. She noted that she did not intend to harm her and has since apologized to her. She pleaded with the police for leniency since she had repented and would never do that again. The Tesano Divisional Commander, ACP Emmanuel Bossoh, said the Headmistress of New Jerusalem International School at Tabora reported to his unit yesterday that Esther’s bruises were noticed by some of her mates while playing. When she was quizzed, she narrated her ordeal to the mistress who then invited her guardians to the school. A verbal agreement was reached that Esther live with the mistress till she recovered. However, in the afternoon of yesterday, Chinyere went to the school to rescind her decision, asking the mistress to hand over Esther to her because she was best placed to take good care of her. The mistress, who did not take kindly to her decision, refused her request but Chinyere would not leave. In the ensuing confrontation, the mistress decided to report to the police to take custody of the girl. Esther confirmed to the police that several other marks including a scar on her wrist were inflicted on her by her Auntie Chinyere with a knife. The Divisional Commander told Daily Guide that Chinyere’s three male children were never scolded for any offence but she always found faults with her niece and abuses her at the slightest provocation. Kingsley Oburoh has since been granted a self-recognizance bail while Chinyere remains in police custody. The two are likely to appear before court today.

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Posted by Emmanuel Nwabugwu Chibunwanne on May 21, 2011 at 2:02am

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Hilarious: The Badass of the Week meet King David smacks down Goliath please forgive our french

Posted by frank adeche Mr Netchurch on May 21, 2011 at 1:00am

King David
"This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the Earth may know that there is a God in Israel."
- 1 Samuel 17:46

In the late 11th century BCE, young David of Bethlehem wasn't exactly on the fast track to babes, riches, and using the skulls of his enemies as ornamental wine goblets adorning a table filled with messing badass lemon meringue pies, ostrich burgers, and other delicious stuff along those lines. No, instead the man who would become King David of Israel was stuck tending sheep on his father's crappy farm in the middle of nowhere, kind of like Luke Skywalker messing tooling around Tatooine when he should have been out there slicing the faces off of weird disgusting aliens and crushing peoples' colons with his mind. This kind of work didn't really give David an opportunity to showcase his powers of Yahweh-powered, Philistine-smashing badassitude, but he did develop a reputation for being kind, charismatic, strong, and brave enough to fight off rabid, sheep-eating wolves with little more than a giant messing stick and a disregard for the slavering fangs of nature's most perfect predators.

Pretty much everybody who met him realized that there was something special about this kid, even if they didn't exactly realize that the Jehovah Force was strong with this one.In addition to being able to smash coyotes and other lupine/canine sheepavores over the head with a stick until they started convulsing, David also had a reputation for being a pretty ultra-bitchin' lyre player. One day King Saul of Judah was bumming hard about some stupid crap that was pissing him off, so he called David in to wail out a couple of flaming solos and cheer up the depressed monarch. David busted out some insane Van Halen shit, and Saul was so pumped up by this kid's sick chops that he hired him on as his personal house musician.

David hung out for a while, learning the ways of war and impressing hot babes with his awesome and inspirational power ballads, until one day Israel went to war with a group of people known as the Phlistines.In case you're not down with the Old Testament, the Philistines were basically a bunch of jackasses who spent the better part of the Bible messing with the Israelites, killing their people, and exerting their will over the Chosen People of God for no reason at all. The toughest and most hardcore of these guys was a dude named Goliath of Geth - a gargantuan, scrotum-crushing maniac who was like a Biblical mix between Chewbacca and a planet-eating robot.

Basically, Goliath was a messing dickhead who thought he was the baddest shit ever created. Before the war even got started, this monster of a man stepped forward wearing a full suit of spiked metal armor and carrying a sword large enough to slice open the space-time continuum, thumped his chest, and dared anybody in Israel to heck with him Even though nobody really wanted a piece of this roid-raging psycho, David was not impressed. He called Goliath's bluff, walked out to meet the bastard, and prepared to give this guy the righteous assbeating he was obviously asking for. This kid probably looked like Adam Sandler going up against Ivan Drago when he stepped out onto the battlefield, but David didn't even give a shit.

He took two steps forward, pulled out his messing sling, and winged a goddamned rock into Goliath's face with enough force to explode the giant's brains out the back of his head. After watching this heinous shit go down, the Philistines quickly decided that they didn't want anything to do with a guy who could use a messing rock to generate the same force as a twelve-gauge shotgun, so they dropped their spears and ran for it like a bunch of bitches. David hacked the giant's head off with his own sword and carried his hard-earned trophy around to impress the ladies and show his friends who the toughest motherheck er in the Middle East really was.

David pawns Goliath by stepping on his face St. Michael-style.
David's improbable, badass, "Appalachian State defeats Michigan"-style victory earned him the respect of his people, and he soon became incredibly popular and universally recognized as an ultimate Israelite badass. Dudes dug the fact that he went on to become a General and lead Israel's armies to victory on numerous occasions, while chicks were all about his movie star good looks.

Even King Saul's daughter was all about David - when she basically threw herself at the Hero of Israel, he asked for the chick's hand in marriage. King Saul told David that he could only marry his daughter if he killed 100 Philistines. David went out, killed them all, cut off their junk, and brought a huge sack of severed dongs back to Saul. Saul, for his part, had a tough time turning down the request when presented with such compelling evidence.

Eventually Saul got jealous and drunk and pissed and tried to assassinate David, but our hero escaped and fled into the Wilderness. He went on some RPG video game-style adventures out there, championing the underprivileged, defending Jewish settlements from desert raiders, and plundering the camps of marauding Dark Elf tribesmen, and became so popular with the people that when King Saul was killed in battle with the Philistines the Hero returned home and was placed on the throne of Judea.As the totally righteous King of Israel (and I use the term "righteous" to mean both "holy" and "bitchin"), David did a bunch of awesome shit like conquer/build Jerusalem, bring the Ark of the Covenant into town, and marry a shitload of hot Jewish bikini babes. When he wasn't overthrowing the Philistines, conquering any neighboring civilization stupid enough to alert him to their presence and forging a massive empire from the blood of his enemies, he also found time to write pretty much all the Psalms in the Bible.

Psalms is like the hugest section of the entire Good Book (there are like a thousand of them or some shit), so you know this guy was so face-meltingly eloquent it made Shakespeare look like an off-the-boat New York cabbie with a speech impediment and a very rudimentary understanding of the English language. David kind of pissed God off when he banged some guy's wife and then sent the dude off to die on the front lines of a war, but eventually it was all good in the hood - David married the chick, knocked her up, and their second kid went on to become King Solomon, the dude who built the Temple and apparently some mines or something as well. Solomon was kind of a big deal.

King David ruled Israel for 40 years, brought his people to prominence as a force to be reckoned with in the Middle East, and is now remembered as a kind, just, and respected ruler who administered his court with honor and crushed his enemies by smashing them repeatedly in the face with a Medieval cattle prod cranked up to ten billion jiggawatts. He established the first Jewish Kingdom in Israel, died peacefully of old age on a gold-encrusted bed surrounded by thousands of hot women, and is now considered a total badass by all three Abrahamic Traditions.Shit, even the Mormon's think he's cool.

How to Preach Jesus Using the Psalms

Posted by frank adeche Mr Netchurch on May 21, 2011 at 12:36am

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From the New Testament through the church Fathers (including Tertullian, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, Hilary) to interpreters of recent centuries (Luther, Spurgeon, Bonhoeffer), Christians have seen Jesus as one of the chief subjects of the Psalms. Jesus has also been seen as the one who sings the Psalms: he experienced the full range of human emotions and the full, intimate, honest relationship with God depicted in the Psalms. In a sense, Jesus even knew guilt, as he experienced the crushing weight of our sin and God’s judgment on rebels (2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24).

The incredible variety of emotions and situations in the Psalms reflects Jesus’ own experience as God in human form, walking and living among us, experiencing what we experience. We also see Jesus in the Psalms as we remember his role as God Incarnate, the God who stoops to be with his people in their sojourn, their trials, their disappointments, their disasters. He is the shepherd who will not take us where he himself has not gone, and having trusted God as he went through the valley of death himself, he will not fail to take us through to the other side with him (Psalm 23).

We see Jesus as the lover of God’s Law who delighted in it and obeyed it perfectly (Psalm 1; 40:6-8; 119). We see Jesus mourning for those who suffer. We see him concerned for and identifying with the poor, the oppressed, and the lost (Psalm 41:1-3; 112:5, 9; 113:5-9; compare Matthew 25:31-46). And we see Jesus proclaiming God’s salvation and faithfulness to the congregation (Psalm 40:9-10).

We see Jesus as the suffering servant of God who laments his fate. He is persecuted, condemned, and killed unjustly (Psalm 22, 69) in order to wipe away sin (Psalm 51). He is rejected by Israel, abandoned by his followers, and betrayed by his friend, Judas (Psalm 41:9, cited in John 13:18; Psalm 109:8 cited in Acts 1).

We see Jesus raised from the dead (Psalm 16:9-10, cited in Acts 2), a rejected stone chosen by God for the foundation of his family (Psalm 118). This risen one is the victorious Son of David who rules over the nations, establishes justice, and extends mercy to those who do not deserve it. He will execute judgment over all nations (Psalm 2; 45; 110). In the exaltation and enthronement of David’s son, all the nations will learn to praise the one true God (Psalm 18:49; Romans 15:7). Jesus also proves himself to be the True Human, the Second and Better Adam who fulfills our original destiny by restoring humanity to rule with God over all things (Psalm 8).

As Bruce Waltke sums it up, “The Psalms are ultimatelythe prayers of Jesus Christ, Son of God. He alone is worthy to pray the ideal vision of a king suffering for righteousness and emerging victorious over the hosts of evil.” Waltke goes on to note that “Christians, as sons of God, can rightly pray these prayers along with their representative Head.” Seeing Christ in the Psalms means that we can also see ourselves, as those who are recipients of his redeeming work and as those who follow Christ, being changed even now into his likeness by the work of his Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:16-18).

While Jesus alone is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, Paul says that we ourselves are like “sheep to be slaughtered” (Psalm 44:22 in Romans 8:38), and that we must “suffer with him.” (Romans 8:17)

Just as Jesus suffered at the hands of his enemies and had to wage war against the Enemy, so we must see ourselves as warriors engaged in resistance against a great Enemy: “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” (Romans 16:20; “your” is plural, the Christians in Rome; Revelation 2-3; Ephesians 6:10-20) Those who resist Satan and conquer sin are reigning with Jesus (Psalm 2 in Revelation 3:21; Ephesians 2:6).

The nations will praise the King (Psalm 68:2) as we lead them to bow the knee to him in obedience (Matthew 28:16-20). Because of Jesus’ great victory, he pours out spiritual gifts on his people in order to make more Christians and bring his people to maturity, making them more Christ-like (Psalm 68:18; Ephesians 4:7-16).

Jesus commands us to love him and others; as we obey, we walk in light, not darkness (1 John 2:4-10; Psalm 119:105). Walking that path of love and life produces delight, so that we can say, “Oh, how I love your Law, oh, Lord; I meditate on it all day long” (Psalm 119:97; John 15; 1 John 3:16-24). Paul teaches us that we fulfill God’s law as we walk in the Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus himself sent to guide us (Romans 8:4). He even says that “our righteousness lasts forever” as we extend ourselves to those in need (Psalm 112:9, 2 Corinthians 8:9).

Finally, we have the promise that we who learn meekness from the perfectly Meek One will inherit the earth, an inheritance Jesus himself earned (Psalm 37:11; Matthew 5:5, 11:29).

We can find Jesus all over the Psalms, because the Psalms are his prayer book that points to him. And when we find Jesus in the Psalms, we also find ourselves.

How Long Does It Take to Digest Food ?

Posted by technology on May 20, 2011 at 11:13pm

Digestion funny enough is a high tech procedure. That is why this android is writing about it

But would you chew your amala,eba,tuwo and santana to improve it .

Read on and tell me

Food digestion varies depending upon the type of food. I will break down the process into its steps and provide a timeline for each step.

First we see the food. This stimulates our brain to ready our stomach to receive food, by increasing gastric secretions. Then, we eat the food. Amylase is a digestive enzyme in our saliva that helps to break down carbohydrates. Mechanical manipulation by chewing breaks the food into smaller pieces which provide more surface area. This increased surface area helps the enzymes in the small intestine absorb the nutrients in our food better. This is why it is important to chew your food well. Next, we swallow and food arrives at the stomach.

The stomach is responsible for further mechanical breakdown of food and some chemical breakdown. Proteins are broken down by pepsinogen into peptide chains and fat is broken by gastric lipase (to help you navigate through these terms, any word with “ase” at the end generally denotes an enzyme responsible for some kind of digestion). When food has been through the stomach, it becomes chyme; an acidic mixture of hydrochloric acid from our stomach, pepsinogen, lipase and amylase. The entrance to the small intestine from the stomach is controlled by the pyloric sphincter; a controlled doorway that prevents too much chyme from entering the small intestine at once.

The duodenum is the first part of the small intestine. The duodenum’s job is to neutralize the acidic chyme before allowing it to continue through the rest of the small intestine by way of bicarbonate from pancreatic juice. The food then enters the jejunum, the part of the small intestine that is responsible for the majority of nutrient absorption. Fat, peptides and carbohydrates are further broken down by enzymes into units that are small enough to be transferred in the bloodstream to the target organs. The primary fuel the body needs to run properly is glucose; so much of the food is broken down and recombined into glucose.

At this point, the food has spent between 30 minutes and 2 hours in the stomach and between 2 and 6 hours in the small intestine and 90% of the nutrients have been extracted. The left over material has lots of water and sodium left in it. The body wants to reclaim these substances before defecation; food takes 72 hours to be processed in the large intestine. The jobs of the large intestine are to reclaim the water from the food, reclaim the sodium from the food, and provide healthy bacteria to ferment fiber that has not been digested. This fermentation provides nutrients to keep the cells in the large intestines healthy. Fiber that has not been digested adds bulk to the waste products to facilitate elimination.

In summary, at the short end, digestion takes about 75 hours, but it can take up to 80 hours from the time it enters the mouth to the time it leaves the body in the form of stool.

Lagos is owing N124b Fashola how Far ?

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 20, 2011 at 9:23pm

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The Lagos State’s debt profile, as of April 30, 2011, stands at N124.188billion, according to data released by the state’s ministry of finance.
The figure was contained in an address presented on Thursday by the state finance commissioner, Rotimi Oyekan, during the ministerial press briefing held to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Governor Babatunde Fashola’s administration.
The breakdown of the debt profile showed that the state government has a multilateral debt loan of N62,426,899,007.40 (calculated using an exchange rate of N156.50) and domestic loans of N61,761,172,731.97.
Multilateral loans are debts owed by developing countries to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Mr Oyekan, in his speech, said such loans are “structured as long-term loans with a moratorium and at significantly lower rates than commercial loans”, and his presentation on the multilateral loans showed that $200million was obtained for the Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project.
This loan which was described as “the largest World Bank direct funding for a sub-national government to date”, was obtained to “increase sustainable access to basic urban services through investments in critical infrastructure”.
The commissioner also said another $100million loan has been obtained from the French Development Agency for the expansion of the Ikorodu road into six-lanes including the BRT route.

Borrowing for the budget
Though, the state government has always maintained a policy of borrowing for the specific purpose of financing public projects, the third multilateral loan is a detour from this policy. For three consecutive years, a loan of up to $200million annually will be provided by the World Bank “to support the state’s budget directly rather than specific projects”.
“This is another indication of the level of confidence reposed in the State Government by the Multilateral Agency. It is worthy to note that the State has successfully secured the Federal Government’s guarantee and also obtained the approval of the National Assembly during the Public Hearing sessions of 6th December, 2010 and 2nd February, 2011 to incur external loans for its Developmental Policy Operations,” Mr Oyekan said, adding that the borrowings were necessitated by “huge infrastructural deficit which would require an estimated sum of $50 billion to address in the next few decades”.
He assured that the state deficit budget was nothing to worry about because less than 30 percent of the state’s total revenue “is used to manage its debt. It is not a crime to operate deficit budgeting. It is a reflection of present needs.”
Mr Oyekan’s statement is coming after the state’s commissioner for the Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget (MEPB), Ben Akabueze said last month that Lagos’s budget will run on deficit until 2013.
“There is no way we will run deficit budget in perpetuity,” he said, when asked whether there would ever be a year the state would not administer a deficit budget.
Borrow, but!
A Lagos-based economist, Henry Boyo, reacted to Mr Akabueze’s comments that State government be careful about its borrowings.
Mr Boyo agreed that “borrowing is not bad in itself”.
“If the borrowed fund will be used for infrastructure projects, it will be like an investment which will pay off later,” he said.
However, Mr Boyo warned that the cost of servicing the deficit is as important, if not more, than the purpose of borrowing.
Though, he commended the state government’s use of the bond market, he said the interest should be lower than 10 percent. However, the state government’s bond has a guaranteed 13 percent interest rate.
In addition, he said it is important that the state government find a way to reduce its recurrent expenditure, reduce the cost of hiring consultants, and develop other sources of income, if the dream of ending perpetual deficit budget is to be feasible.
“The state government seems fixated on personal income tax alone. But there are other means of revenue that could be developed,” he said. “For instance, the Land Use Charge alone, considering the number of houses in Lagos, can give the state more than income tax can generate.”
Mr Boyo however said he believed that “the state government is headed in the right direction to economic freedom but is only tied down by political strings”.
Making more
While putting the monthly revenue base of the State Government at N15billion, Mr Oyekan said the Lands Records Company (LRC), the company charged with the responsibilities of administering the collection of Land Use Charges, generated N3.02billion in 2010.
He added that 95 percent of properties in Lagos State have been valued and all properties will get the Land Use Charge bill in 2011.

Your 9ja GUIDE to The End OF THE WORLD.. who when why so Dont Dull !

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 20, 2011 at 9:15pm

By David A. Graham. Rewritten for 9jabook.com by Cossy Eko

A small but devout group of people believes May 21 (yes, TODAY) will be the beginning of the end of the world. Confused ? Fear not, this article answers all of your Atheistically inclined questions and some Left Behind ones if you dont get Taken !

So the world is ending on Saturday?

Well, not quite.Some Believers say that what's actually going to happen is the Judgment Day, when the chosen who will be saved are taken away. For everyone else, it's really just the beginning of a new phase. It'll be followed by a time of tumult. You may also hear Saturday referred to as Doomsday or the Rapture; not to worry, it's all the same thing.

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I think I heard about this somewhere...

That's probably true-especially if you live in New York, where you've probably been accosted by people with handbills on the street and aggressive ads on the subway. If you're outside of the Big Apple, that is in lagos, Nigeria you might have met Reporters on the streets interviewing folks you might have encountered billboards as well as cars with megaphones broadcasting the news. I doubt that though Lagosians hate the End of Anything except Traffic minus the hawkers who wont mind if we sleep eat and bathe while they sell everything from toothpaste to meat and socks ! . Lagosians were Recently told if they give alms to beggars they may go to jail ! You've been warned. You may even have a friend, relative or neighbor desperately trying to convince you it's true !

What time and Date is the world supposed to end ? I want to catch the Nigerian Argentina Friendly !

Egbon, You're out of luck . There's no consensus on what time exactly the Rapture will occur-and time zones, international date lines, daylight savings time, etc., only makes it more complicated-but the word is that it's likely to be 11 p.m Nigerian Time .

Who is behind this?

The whole thing has been set off by a gentleman named Harold Camping. Camping's a spry 89 years old and runs Family Radio, a network of Christian radio stations. He started broadcasting in 1958 and has been at it ever since, with the flagship being his own daily "Open Forum" program, during which he takes questions. But he's also very into calendars and biblical chronology, and has been publishing works on numerology and the Bible for decades now, although he's not ordained himself. His views tend toward the esoteric: instead of hell, for example, he believes that life just ends for those who aren't saved. Not surprisingly, he's not especially fond of existing Christian churches, which he believes have lost the way. Some 9ja pastors are not fond either even of Paul the apostle .A certain Pastor Aribisala on 234next.com says Paul is the Antichrist . quite interesting debate ..

How did he come up with May 21, 2011?

It's pretty elaborate. Basically, the Bible states that one day for God is a thousand years for mankind. Camping reasons, based on a verse in Genesis, that the world will end seven God-days, or 7,000 years, after the end of Noah's flood. And he's calculated that date as being tomorrow. The math is pretty impressive-he's got a variety of different ways of reaching the number, buttressed with biblical quotations and numerology. It's pretty difficult for us to grasp, but then again Camping was a civil engineer before he turned to religion, whereas we are reporters who can't do math.

How many people believe the end is tomorrow?

It's tough to say. Family Radio appears to have a pretty large audience, but who knows if all of them are convinced? There's been no census or survey, either, and the true numbers have perhaps been obscured by a flurry ofbemused (and perhaps voyeuristic) press coverage. The thousands of billboards and handbill distributors suggest it's not just buzz, though.

All round N.igeria there have been people debating this phenomenom

Are they Christians or what?

Sure-but they're not your average mainline Protestant, Catholic, or evangelical Christians. As we've said, Camping's views tend toward the esoteric. Most of the believers say they aren't affiliated with a specific church: they believe in Jesus Christ and the Bible, and they've come to be convinced by Camping's math.

Uh-oh. How can I be saved?

You better watch out, there's no sure-fire solution to that. Your best bet is to turn to Christ and repent: throw yourself at his mercy, confess your wickedness, and pray. Don't bother with your current pastor, Camping warns: what matters is God's mercy, so you'll want to be praying directly to him. Time's running short, though. Still, that might not do it: not every believer, or even all members of the penitent, will be taken. FYI tithes & offerings will nit help even if you donate your murano jeep

nothing for you .God's mercy rules !

How many people will be saved?

Camping says the Bible indicates that about 200 million people will be saved-an indication of God's manifest but not infinite mercy. "Sadly, the Holy Bible tells us that only a small percentage of today's world will turn from their evil ways, and with great humility and fear will cry to God for mercy. Nevertheless, the Bible assures us that many of the people who do beg God for His mercy will not be destroyed," Family Radio's website says. 9ja has a population of a 150 million so we are estimating about maybe 5000 9gerians totally emm well it could be less . Lagosians are not very very nice people lol !

What if I'm not taken?!

You've got a long few months ahead of you. The whole thing's going to start with a massive earthquake-a temblor that Camping will be so fierce that "the Tokyo earthquake was like a Sunday-school picnic in comparison." The dead will be thrown from their graves, and those who are saved will be bodily resurrected and taken to heaven. If you survive that, there will be

a time of tribulation lasting five months (derived from a Genesis verse stating that "the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days." On October 21, 2011, the world will actually end, vaporized in flame.
What about my dog?
Good news on that front. If you're worried that you'll be taken up in the rapture but Bingo won't, you can pay Eternal Earth-Bound Pets just 20thousand naira to take care of him (additional animals are just 3k apiece). The proprietors say they're a group of atheists out to help their believing friends. According to the company's site, "Our representatives have been screened to ensure that they are atheists, animal lovers, are moral / ethical with no criminal background, have the ability and desire to rescue your pet and the means to retrieve them and ensure their care for your pet's natural life." Unfortunately, it seems hard to imagine the service will help after October 21. inbox me for more details .

Where's the best place to weather this sucker?

Avoid low-lying areas, buildings, and fault lines. The Great Plains are probably a good bet. Basically, you're going to want to stay away from anywhere that'd be dangerous in a normal earthquake. One believer, Robert Fitzpatrick,described the great flood that's likely to swamp New York pretty quickly, so avoid-or leave-the Big Apple. If you are in the Lagos Bar beach Area Leave Now ! Lekki & Environs head for Epe or Ijebu Ode .Dont be an Ode . Mainland people avoid 3rd mainland bridge ..

Seriously, though, should I be worried?
Oh, fine: Probably not. It's not just that Camping's formulas are nearly incomprehensible to anyone without an advanced degree in Biblical codebreaking. It's the fact that he's made this prediction before. In 1992, he announced that September 6, 1994 would be the end of the world. Then, as now, a group of believers gathered and prepared and then... nothing happened. Camping writes this off as a rookie mistake-he was just getting into reading the codes in the Bible. He's confident this time: "Beyond the shadow of a doubt, May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment," he told the Associated Press.

Just got married no fear Heaven gaurantees no marriages . Just got that Oil Job then well It is left to you to wait for the mother of all oil spills . But Shell Nigeria will not help out . The whole of Nigeria might become one heck of an oil slick region with shell smiling all the way to the bank still .

Someone must be making money off this, right ?

One would think. But it's not clear that Camping is the one. He's been open about his teachings, posting them online and also distributing them in a free book. One religion professor told the CBC that Camping was particularly unusual and maybe dangerous because he isn't asking for money up front. And Family Radio is a nonprofit organization, although it's also worth an estimated tens of millions of dollars. Some people are surely profiting: you can buy T-shirts, for example, and there are the dog-walkers, too. We wish we sold advertising on billboards, though: believers have shelled out lots of money-sometimes their entire life-savings-on advertisements to warn the populace.

If you want to get to heaven poor kindly request for our bank account .

How dumb are you going to feel if they're right ?
Pretty silly. But it'll be the least of my worries, right?
Good point! I guess I can just relax and not worry about it then.
What?! Haven't you heard about the Mayan prophecy? The world is ending in 2012.
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Kidnappers Target Night Club Patrons

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 20, 2011 at 8:56pm

We did not kidnap him, we only demanded N70m ransom – Suspect

If you are a patron of a night club and a lady approaches you around the vicinity of the club asking you to pay her gate fee, you need to be wary. The lady may be a member of a gang that specialises in kidnapping patrons of night club.

This was the experience of 48-year-old Emmanuel Sackey last Friday at a night club on Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. What gave him out was that he arrived at the club in his boss’ Hummer Jeep. So, the kidnappers thought that he was a rich guy.

Sackey said, “On Friday night, I went to Adetokunbo Ademola Street to check a new club out. While trying to find a place to park, a lady asked me to assist her gain entry into the club. I told her to go on her own. And when I was about to enter, she started shouting, accusing me of owing her money.

“Immediately, from nowhere, some men came to meet us and claimed to be policemen. They asked me to follow them. Immediately I got to where they parked, they stabbed me in the arm, pointed a gun at my head, took N12,000 from my pocket and forced me into their car.”

Sackey, who added that the men covered his face so he would not know where he was being taken to, insisted that the lady was part of the plot.

“I was taken to a room where they told me that my family must provide N70m and failure to comply, they would kill me the following week. They even took my ATM cards and demanded my pin numbers. Luckily, there was no money in the account,” Sackey, who was held for two days, added.

Sackey told PUNCH METRO that two days after he was kidnapped, he escaped while the kidnappers were sleeping. He added that he jumped over the fence of the compound and raised the alarm, which attracted people from the neighbourhood. “It was some residents in the community that helped to apprehend two of the kidnappers and called the police,” he stated.

Police Public Relations Officer, Samuel Jinadu, said the police at Oke-Odo received information that some hoodlums were hiding at 11 Calvary Street, Off Ekoro Road, Abule Egba.

He said, “The police went to the crime scene while two of the suspects: namely Emmanuel Andrew (28), and Mbet Obong (27) were arrested for the kidnap of Emmanuel Sackey. Police later searched the house and two locally-made pistols with 12 rounds of .38mm live ammunition were recovered.

“The gang leader, Benjamin Odudu, was arrested on Ekoro Road, Abule-Egba. The remaining two suspects are still at large. Also, Hillary Nwankwoala, whom the victim also identified, was apprehended on Monday.”

But a member of the gang, Obong, who claimed to be innocent, said they neither kidnapped nor assaulted Sackey but only helped him.

Asked why they demanded N70m ransom, Obong, who said a prostitute inflicted injuries on Sackey, added that they only demanded N70m ransom after they took him to their house for treatment.”

RCCG Church : ‘Resurrect my 3 kids or my wife and I will also die’ Distraught Father accuses Pastor

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on May 20, 2011 at 8:03pm

The bereaved father of the three children who mysteriously died in a well at the premises of the Redeemed Christian Church in Ikwere Ngwo of Etche Local Council of Rivers State, Mr. Francis Onwuka, has called on the church and its pastor, Elijah Ayodele to resurrect his children or himself and his wife will also die. Mr. Francis Onwuka, a trader, who hails from Isiala Mbano in Imo state, told newsmen during the week that, “I want the Redeemed Church and Ayodele to give me back my children, else I will die because my wife and I are no more alive.”

Onwuka accused Pastor Elijah Ayodele of having a hand in the drowning of his only three children. “I want the government to ask Ayodele why he should dig a shallow pit inside a compound where children are and failed to cover it. That simply means he had an ulterior motive. All I want is justice. “My wife and I are dead already. These boys were the only children we had. They ate with me, cleaned my shoes and prayed for me, which made me happy. Somebody called me and said my three boys were dead, just like that. How do I ever begin to think of it?” he lamented.

The deceased children whose names were given as, Emmanuel, 7, Bob-Martins 5 and Patrick 3 years, are suspected to have been pushed into a pit, believed to be a well allegedly dug by Pastor Elijah Ayodele of the Redeemed Christian Church of God while playing with his children.

Weekly Trust gathered that when the mother of the children, Mrs. Stella Onwuka arrived the scene after she was alerted of the incident, she called for help but the pastor refused to come to her aid and was said to have remained indoors despite repeated calls for help, only to come out 30 minutes later when the children had died. The Rivers state Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), Ben Uwuebulem, has assured that the police will get to the root of the matter.

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