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The TD Jakes acolyte Adefarasin has said that there are about 100 million Christians in Nigeria who must determine who becomes the president of their country, adding that most of them have taken the back seat and allowed Muslims to rule the country for long.

Adefarasin, who was preaching at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos, Nigeria, blamed the predominance of muslim leaders in the country on the disunity in the church.

“The church is divided among itself,” he said.

Adefarasin said that the polity has been Islamized for long and Christians must wake up and pray against it.

“Nigerians used to be the most educated people in the world until the likes of Abacha and the Murtala Muhammed came and scattered our educational system to slow down the South so that the North can catch up, instead of speeding up the North,” Adefarasin said.


What he does not understand is that Even if the President of our nation is a Pagan what This nation needs is A leader that will provide them the basic things of life to alleviate the suffering of the masses
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The TD Jakes acolyte Adefarasin has said that there are about 100 million Christians in Nigeria who must determine who becomes the president of their country, adding that most of them have taken the back seat and allowed Muslims to rule the country for long.

Adefarasin, who was preaching at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos, Nigeria, blamed the predominance of muslim leaders in the country on the disunity in the church.

“The church is divided among itself,” he said.

Adefarasin said that the polity has been Islamized for long and Christians must wake up and pray against it.

“Nigerians used to be the most educated people in the world until the likes of Abacha and the Murtala Muhammed came and scattered our educational system to slow down the South so that the North can catch up, instead of speeding up the North,” Adefarasin said.


What he does not understand is that Even if the President of our nation is a Pagan what This nation needs is A leader that will provide them the basic things of life to alleviate the suffering of the masses
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what is possible!

Hello 9ija,

Have you ever hung out with a bunch of five year olds?

They are bursting with creativity and ideas, alive with what's possible.

And somehow between then and now, most of us feel we've lost the capacity to have new ideas.

I think it's a combination of things.

==> We're often so busy that we don't have time to have new ideas - the first thought that comes along will do just fine (because hey, it'san idea, right? Any any idea is better than none!)

==> We live in a society that loves the fast and the first over the slow and the second... so there's not a lot of encouragement there

==> And finally, we just get out of practice. Let's face it, many of us are 90lb wimps in the Creativity Gym.

So why is it important to re-remember how to have new ideas and create new possibilities?

Because if the essence of 'stuck' is only having one option (and not liking what it is)...

then the essence of 'unstuck' is having the choice of powerful possibilities.

In other words, the capacity to have ideas and imagine what's possible IS the capacity to get unstuck.

So what can you do about it?

Here's a 6 step fandango for creating possibilities and new ideas. Test it out by taking on a real challenge your faced with right now.

#1. Give yourself some time. You don't need much. 5 minutes is great. 10 minutes, luxurious!

#2. Get away from your usual place of work. That doesn't mean leaving the building - it can just be turning your chair around. Butshift out of that 'be efficient and focused place' we all have.

#3. Set yourself a target of new ideas. Five is the minimum... after that, you can go crazy.

#4. Press the 'pause' button on that little voice inside your head that just went 'I can't have five ideas ... I'm not that creative ...I'm no good at this.' (Did you know the biggest influence on yourability to be creative is your belief that YOU CAN be creative? So justfor the next five minutes, pretend that you're creative and that you'reup for this.Go on - it'll be fine)

#5. Ask yourself some powerful creative questions to open things up. Here are some of my favorites:

  • If you could not fail, what would you do?
  • What's the easiest thing to do?
  • What's the boldest thing to do?
  • What would be the most fun thing to do?
  • What's the counter-intuitive thing to do?
  • What's the safest thing to do?

#6. Start shaping a solution - take the best idea or ideas and start planning on how you're going to do what you want to do.

So... What's possible?

9ija here's to your life of fun, inspiration & action.

Warm wishes,
Angela.

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WHEN MEN SAY THERE IS NO GOD, THE RESULT IS USUALLY............

UNTIMELY DEATH!!!!!!! !


.... BE
SURE YOU SCROLL WAYDOWN TO SEE WHAT THIS MESSAGE HOLDS
FOR YOU!!!! YOU JUST MIGHT BE SURPRISED!!! I
WAS!!!


















D
ID YOU KNOW
THESE FACTS?








I
SURE DIDNT TILL NOW
















Death
is certain but the Bible speaks about untimely death!
















Make a
personal reflection about this.......
















Very
interesting, read until the end.....











It is
written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7):





















'Be not
deceived; God is not mocked:











for
whatsoever a man sow,











that shall
he also reap..





















Here are some
men and women











who mocked
God
:















John Lennon

(Singer):
















Some
years before, during his interview with an American Magazine,
he said:
















'Christianity
will end, it will disappear.











I do
not have to argue about











that..
I am certain.
















Jesus
was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more
famous than Him' (1966).
















Lennon, after
saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ,
was shot six times.





















Tancredo
Neves
(President of Brazil
):











During
the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes
from his party, not even God would remove him from
Presidency.
















Sure he got
the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President,
then he died.
















Cazuza

(Bi-sexual Brazilian
composer, singer and poet):











During
A show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ),
















while
smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air
and said:'God, that's for you.'
















He died at
the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner..
















The man who
built the Titanic
















After
the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the
Titanic would be.
















With
an ironic tone he said:











'Not
even God can sink it'
















The
result:I think you all know what
happened to the Titanic





















Marilyn Monroe

(Actress)
















She
was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a
show.











He
said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her.











After
hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said:











'I
don't need your Jesus'.
















A week later,
she was found dead in her apartment
















Bon Scott

(Singer)











The
ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he
sang:











'Don't
stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to
hell'.
















On the 19th
of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked
by his own vomit.
















Campinas
(IN 2005)










In
Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a
friend.....











The
mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the
drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter
holding her hand, who was already seated in the car:
















'My
Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.'











She
responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause
Inside Here.....It' s Already Full '
















Hours later,
news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident,
everyone had died,











the car could
not be recognized what type of car it had been, but
surprisingly, the trunk was intact.
















The police
said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To
their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was
broken
















Christine
Hewitt
(Jamaican Journalist and
entertainer)

said the
Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.
















In June 2006
she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor
vehicle.












Many more
important people have forgotten that there is no other name
that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus.
















Many have
died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still
alive.
















'Jesus'
















PS:

If it was a
joke, you would have sent it to everyone.

So are you going to
have courage to send this?.











I have done my
part, Jesus said











'If you are
embarrassed about me,











I will also
be embarrassed about you before my father.'











You
are my 8 in 8 seconds. I am not breaking this. No way!











I'M
TOLD THIS WORKS!!!!! Bishop T.D. Jakes '8 Second Prayer.' Just
repeat this prayer and see how God moves!!











'Lord,
I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me,
my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name.
Amen.'











Pass
this message to 8 people {EXCEPT YOU AND ME}...You will
receive a miracle tomorrow. I Hope that you don't ignore and


let God
bless you
.

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Sallah: Soldiers, Muslim youths clash in Jos

policemen and men of the Joint Military Task Force on Tuesday clashed with some irate youths in Jos, the Plateau State capital, shortly after the eid prayer to commemorate this year’s Eid-el-Kabir festival.

The Nigerian Tribune learnt that trouble started when some of the youth who had just finished Eid-el-Kabir prayer at Dogon-Karfe and were heading home suddenly became reckless with their bikes and defiled instructions and cautions.

An eyewitness said one of them attempted to hit a soldier at one of the roadblocks in the area, adding that an attempt by the soldiers in the vicinity to arrest the boy attracted the attention of other youths returning from the prayer.

It was gathered that the youth surrounded the check point to ensure that the culprit was not taken away but the soldiers, however, refrained themselves from opening fire on them.

To nip the incident in the bud, some armed mobile policemen were despatched to the area to maintain peace but the youth became more violent on sighting them, hurling stones at the policemen.

In the process, the windscreen of one of the police patrol vans was broken, while some of the youth and a policeman sustained minor injuries.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, confirmed the incident, saying that there was no need to panic as the situation had been brought under control.

Aduba said that he also asked his men to release those arrested, adding that some of the Muslim leaders assured him that they would hand over the unruly ones to him for prosecution.
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WATCH THIS SAD VIDEO, THE QUEEN IS DEAD.



PLEASE WATCH THIS SAD VIDEO, THE QUEEN IS DEAD.
A chilling tale of a lady named Queen from Agbor, Delta State who lived under a bridge behind the Sheraton Hotel in Lagos for 15 years! Enslaved, constantly raped, infected with HIV and eventually died of the AIDS. Queen had four children born to different men, as this documentary shows, her children were stolen. For 3 years, Yinka Ola-Williams investigated the whereabouts of the children...and in the process learnt about the booming child- sale and racketeering in orphanages in Nigeria. Through meticulous and relentless investigation he found her last baby alive!
A nation that cannot take care of its own does not deserve its existence; for the stature and greatness of the nation is perceived purely as a function of the power of the state, to take care of its citizens and measured by the extent to which it helps the helpless in the society....

Courtesy of huhuonline.com if you cant see it goto http://www.9jabook.com homepage
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SILVERBIRD is at it again! The outfit owned by entertainment guru, Ben Murray- Bruce during its 30th anniversary, unveiled the model of what would be Africa’s tallest building.Model of the Silverbird's StratosphereThe 64-storey building that would be built in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja will be dedicated to President Goodluck Jonathan who unveiled the model.The Silverbird boss recalled how as Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, President Goodluck Jonathan’s goodluck galvanised the construction of Silverbird mall in Yenagoa, the State capital.Giving details of the building which he called The Stratosphere, Bruce said it will comprise among other facilities, a shopping mall, a five star hotel. Designed by the architectural firm of Chaccour Construction, the imposing tower which will transform the Abuja skyline, will have about 400 luxury apartments, 250 suite five-star hotel, private spa and health club and a sky lounge.Provision is also being made for a helipad, 80 feet swimming pool, restaurants and riverside boulevards and arcades.Other facilities include round the clock private electricity generation, private water supply and Medical Clinic.Although no date was given for either the commencement or completion of the project, Vanguard Homes, Property & Environment recalls that Silverbird blazed the trail by building the first family mall with the first Cineplex in West Africa in Lagos.Apart from the Silverbird Galleria in Lagos, the group has also built a mall in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State for the State government and a family entertainment centre in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
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THE world is indeed in dangerous times, or what else would one say about an househelp/appren-tice who tried to poison her mistress because the woman’s sister offended her? That was the drama that played out at Alubarika House, Sango area of Saki in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State when a 12-year-old Beninoise girl, Dama Lamisi, who was renamed Fatimah in Nigeria, laced the tea her mistress intended to drink with rat poison. And if not for the quick perception of a strange odour emitting from the tea after she took a gulp, the woman, Mrs. Simbiat Yusuf would have been dead. She was however saved by the hospital she was rushed to through quick medical intervention.



[The victim, Mrs Simbiat Yusuf]




http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/index.php/crime-features/2514-deadly-househelp-steals-mistress-money-laces-her-tea-with-rat-poison

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A 60-year old female pilgrim from Lagos State to this year’s hajj, Mrs. Oni, popularly called Dangote, has died in Mina, Saudi Arabia.Three other Lagos State pilgrims were hospitalised after eating the loaf of bread distributed by the state pilgrims’ welfare board for breakfast.Dangote, a politician from ward “A” in Mushin Local Government Area of the state died in her sleep at about 1a.m. after observing prayers.A source on pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia told Vanguard that Oni went into prayers after her dinner, only to be found dead few hours later.A fellow pilgrim from Mushin, who spoke under anonymity said: “If not that I tried to wake her up for bath this morning (yesterday), no one would have known that Dangote had passed on.”Mixed reactionsWhile few pilgrims, including the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Religious Matters (Islam,) Abdulhakeem Kosoko, regarded her death as a blessing to her because, “she died in the holy month and in the holy land,” others blamed it on the foods intake which they claimed were not too hygienic for consumption.One of the pilgrims said: “If only the state government had not relied solely on the poor food provided by the Federal Government, she might not have died.”Meanwhile, the body of Dangote which was taken away in an ambulance to one of the Saudi Arabian hospitals was rejected and returned six hours later. However, a higher medical delegation took her back to another hospital where she was accepted for certification.Trading blamesOn the three pilgrims hospitalised, the state government, however, denied any involvement in the contaminated food which it explained was sponsored by President Goodluck Jonathan to aid his 2011 election campaign.The Special Adviser to the state Governor on Political and Legislative Bureau, Abdulhakeem Abdulateef, pacified the angry pilgrims in the tent of Surulere Local Government. He said: “Nigerians on hajj have always been fending for themselves.”Abdulateef grieved that the event was taken over by the Federal Government through its Hajj Commission (NAHCON) leaving no choice for any state welfare board.The bread, produced by Al Oumara Bakery Company, Saudi Arabia, holder of the Golden Europe Award for Quality in 2001, was immediately christened Bread Jonathan.Abdulateef said: “President Jonathan has launched his 2011 election campaign, starting with Nigeria pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. We have gathered some of the bad bread and sent them to the Saudi authority and the NAHCON.”It was discovered that the egg freely distributed on Monday at mountain Arafat was already spoilt, while the bread ha
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New Michael Jackson single debuts online

View Akon interview Here http://bit.ly/91QbYD

A duet recorded in 2007 by Michael Jackson and rapper Akon has been released on his website - the first single from an album of new music from the King of Pop after his death last year, Sky News reports.
Legendary Pop Star Michael Jackson

Hold My Hand was first recorded in 2007 and was leaked in an unfinished state on the internet in 2008.

Jackson's Sony/Epic record label said Akon recently completed production on the track.

It has been released globally as the first official single from the album, Michael, which goes on sale on December 14.

Sony and the executors of Jackson's estate said they had a hand-written note from the Thriller singer, indicating his desire that Hold My Hand be the first single on his next project.

"The world was not ready to hear Hold My Hand when it leaked a couple years ago. We were devastated about it,' said Akon, who was known to be working with Jackson before his sudden death in June 2009 at the age of 50.

"But its time has definitely come. Now in its final state, it has become an incredible, beautiful, anthemic song. I'm so proud to have had the chance to work with Michael, one of my all time idols," the music producer said in a statement.

Sony also released details of all the tracks on Michael - the first album of new material from the singer since Invincible in 2001.

Two of the tracks feature rapper 50 Cent and rocker Lenny Kravitz. Sony said the songs are the work of "an esteemed group of producers along with Michael Jackson."

"While primarily focused on songs that Michael worked on recently, there are also earlier compelling tracks," said Sony...

The release of Hold My Hand for digital sale follows the streaming on the web last week of another new track Breaking News from the upcoming album, which met with initial scepticism.

Some music critics, along with a few of Jackson's family members, have said they do not believe the vocals on Breaking News really belong to the entertainer.

And Jackson's estranged father Joe has said his perfectionist son would not have wanted his unfinished material released.

But last week Sony insisted it had conducted extensive research and is confident the vocals are Jackson's own.

Michael has the backing of Jackson's official estate and is the latest commercial venture to capitalise on the singer's renewed popularity in death.

A Cirque du Soleil show, dance videogame and a DVD set of all his pop music videos are also on their way.
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Two persons were feared killed, and two married women raped on Wednesday in a fresh violence at Oju Irin, in the Mushin area of Lagos State.Also, no fewer than 80 vehicles were vandalised, and apartments and shops looted by youths identified as Akala boys.Our correspondent gathered that the pockets of violence in Mushin escalated on Wednesday when the Akala boys struck to register their dissatisfaction with the outcome of a reconciliatory peace meeting last week, which they claimed favoured their rival, Oju Irin boys.It was gathered that the Akala boys struck, demanding for the head of the leader of Oju Irin boys, identified as Toba Bale.Residents of the area said they were woken up by gun shots, which made them scamper for safety.A resident who would not give his name for fear of molestation, told our correspondent that the youths in Oju Irin were not expecting the attack after the peace meeting, making the Akala boys to have a field day wrecking the area.“They looted shops, broke into houses and even raped two married women here. It was a scary experience. Government should do something quick. Violence here is becoming a recurring decimal,” he said.Another resident, who gave his name simply as Samson, said he had decided to relocate to Ikorodu. “I have been told that there is peace there,” he said.Our correspondent noticed that policemen had been deployed in the area, while two armoured tanks were seen in strategic spots.Deputy spokesman of Lagos State Police Command, Samuel Jinadu, said the police had restored peace in the area. “We don’t have any report of casualty,” he said, adding that two suspects were also arrested.
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Self confessed Uhrobo Witch Ufuoma Ejenabor might have had the thought she had hammered !


In a swift move to forestall an apparent dramatic scene to re enact the Uzoma Okere Assault case by Naval Boss Arogundade which cumulated in the pay off granted by a court in the sum of 100million naira
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday declared i
its intention to sue an actress, Mrs. Ufuoma Ejenabor, for trying to extort money from the House.


Speaker of the Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, stated this through his Chief of Staff, Mr. Segun Olusesi, while reacting to the alleged assault of Ejenabor by his aides on October 29.

Olusesi said he was driving in the convoy directly behind the pilot vehicle when Ejenabor suddenly emerged from the left and in an attempt to force herself into the speaker's convoy, hit the rear left of the bumper of the pilot vehicle with her right front bumper.

Olusesi also accused Ejenabor of damaging her own car by deliberately hitting the speaker's official Lexus Jeep.photos Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji Uzoma Okere and Self confessed Uhrobo Witch Ufuoma Ejenabor

He claimed that nobody assaulted her in any form and the photographs of her car as contained in newspaper reports could best be described as "insurance fraud and attempt to extort and blackmail the House and the speaker."

Ejenabor had alleged that her car would cost N595, 000 to repair.

The incident was, however, recorded by the aides of the Speaker and it showed part of the events that transpired.

Olusesi said immediately they noticed Ejenabor's belligerence, the Speaker ordered his aides to begin to record the events so that they would not have a scandal in their hands.

The recording showed Ejenabor hysterically shouting at the aides that she had been beaten, her phone seized and they were in trouble for damaging her car.

"You don jam bad luck! You don jam Urhobo witch. They should beat me o! They should beat me, Urhobo girl! You have to beat me. Shebi una get power,!" she screamed.

Olusesi explained that from the footage, she still had her bag intact and her phone was still with her. He also said that the video evidence showed that there was no damage to her car as was exhibited in the photographs.

Olusesi explained that the convoy was coming from the burial of the wife of a member of the House and was heading for Lagos University Teaching Hospital where another member, Mr. Rotimi Sotomiwa, lay ill. Sotomiwa died a few days after the incident.

In her reaction, Ejenabor said that her Blackberry phone was still with the speaker's aides and would be tracked.

"They beat me to collect my phone. My I-pod was in the car. They ransacked the car and took all things. They said I drove into their convoy.

Why would I do that? It happened during the day and it was on a highway. We can have a forensic check of my car and their car. Forensics don't lie," she said
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In a recent joke that many Nigerians are moving out of low brow Croydon and its environs home to the dreaded Homeoffice and a definite Only fools reside where even Angels fear to rent .It has been a
Black Sunday for Nigerians in London …As immigration officials launch raid on illegal immigrants
From ADEWALE SANYAOLU,London with agency reports

Monday, November 15, 2010
It was a black Sunday for Nigerian and Ghanaian illegal migrants yesterday in London as immigration officers stormed into Haley’s in Regent Street and detained contract cleaners from Nigeria, Ghana and Brazil...


The dawn raid, which left four alleged illegal migrants arrested on Britain’s most famous toy shop caught the illegal migrants unaware. The immigration team, which searched all seven floors and rounded up 14 suspects in the teddy bear department, as the Met’s Territorial Support Group guarded the store’s exits.

One suspect, a 17-year-old from Brazil, was found in a locked storeroom cowering under shelves packed with toys. The raid comes as the stores gears up for the pre-Christmas rush. The cleaning staffs are all believed to work for Crystal Cleaning Services, based in Essex. None is employed directly by Haley’s and there is no suggestion that the retailer has done anything wrong...

Surrounded by stuffed bears and Christmas gifts, officers used mobile fingerprint scanners to determine whether the suspects had the right to be in Britain. At the end, four were arrested and could be deported within the next couple of days, while some were led away in handcuffs. Illegal immigrants are often forced to work for sub-standard wages and are frequently victims of trafficking. Tony Moore, a team leader at the UK Border Agency, said “ we are really pleased with the results today. More operations are planned in central London in the coming weeks.

Illegal working has a serious impact, taking jobs from those allowed to work. These employers often bypass health and safety and the minimum wage.” A Hamleys spokesman said: “We are more than happy to help the UK Border Agency.” Employers found guilty of using illegal migrants face a fine of up to’ Illegal working has a serious impact, taking jobs from those allowed to work.

These employers often bypass health and safety and the minimum wage.” A Hamleys spokesman said: “We are more than happy to help the UK Border Agency.” Employers found guilty of using illegal migrants face a fine of up to £10,000 for each one. Crystal Cleaning said it had followed guidance from the Home Office’s “Prevention of Illegal Working,” booklet.
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Seized arms: Suspect flees to Iran !!!

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia (SAN)One of the two Iranians connected with the controversial shipment of arms and ammunition to the Apapa Port in Lagos, has fled to Iran.The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia (SAN), who made this known on Tuesday, said the suspect, left Nigeria with the delegation of the Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki.He told journalists before leaving New York, United States, where he addressed a United Nations Security Council meeting on Sudan, that Mottaki refused his request to quiz the suspect before he (suspect) fled the country.According to him, the Iranian foreign minister hinged his refusal on the fact that the suspect had diplomatic immunity.He said, “I sought from the foreign minister, an access to interview him, but he was not willing to do that. He (the suspect) ... went back on the foreign minister’s delegation.”Ajumogobia said he had asked Mottaki to wave the Iranian’s diplomatic status, but he declined to do so.“I asked the Iranian foreign minister to give access to the diplomat for what it was worth. There were two Iranians mentioned. The facts came to life through discussions with Mottaki, that the other one is a diplomat.”Mottaki had on Monday said in Tehran that the ‘misunderstanding’ between the two countries over the arms shipment had been resolved.He told journalists after his brief visit to Nigeria last week, he had cleared the way for Nigerian interrogators to quiz the second Iranian suspect.Asked to respond to this claim, Ajumogobia said Mottaki must have been referring to how he (Mottaki) facilitated access to the second suspect at the Iranian embassy in Abuja.He recalled that he had asked the Iranian minister to direct his country’s then Ambassador to Nigeria, Hussein Abdullahi, to grant access to the two suspects “but that did not happen in almost a week.”Ajumogobia said, “I explained to the foreign minister of Iran that we had international obligations to carry out, but we needed to have the facts, we want to be accurate in our reports to the Security Council and this individual will throw light on the issue.”The minister added that while his Iranian counterpart insisted that arms the shipment was meant for elsewhere, “ I was concerned that the shipment was here in Nigeria.”Ajumogobia also denied that Western powers mounted pressure on Nigeria to report the weapon’s seizure to the Security Council.“I feel we have international obligations to carry out as responsible members of the UN and it is as simple as that. I made that very clear to the Iranian foreign minister when I met him in Abuja last week,’’ he said.The minister added that most senior foreign diplomats had told him at the UN that they were impressed with Nigeria’s handling of the issue.However, he did not mention any specific country that commended Nigeria.But Ajumogobia said the next step for Nigeria was to continue with the ongoing investigation into the issue and submit a detailed report to the UN committee later.Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Prof. Joy Ogwu, had on Monday, formally notified the Security Council sanctions committee over the seizure of the arms.Ajumogobia also reacted to the claim by a shipping company based in France, CMA CGM, that the weapons concealed in 13 containers labelled as building materials, were being shipped to The Gambia before the Nigerian security operatives intercepted them.He said, “My view is that if a third party is laying claim to a cargo in Nigeria, then they will do so properly and through the proper channels. I haven’t had such a claim brought to my attention.“When it is, I will deal with it appropriately. In the meantime, the security agencies are still investigating that aspect of the claim on their own.”He explained that as a foreign minister, he would “not speculate as to who or what is claiming to anything, because under the Resolution 1929, we have clear obligation to report any arms contravention to the UN.’’He also denied that the Nigeria Football Federation might have cancelled a friendly match with Iran because of the seeming diplomatic row over the illegal arms shipment.Ajumogobia said, “My understanding is that they had some technical problems. There were some players who were supposed to play in the friendly match that were not available.“I think it was just a mere coincidence. It wasn’t connected as far as I am concerned.’’A US-based Nigerian news agency, Empowered Newswire, reported on Wednesday that the arms shipment to Nigeria was discussed informally at the Security Council meeting on Tuesday.Those that attended the meeting included the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon; the US Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Clinton; and her United Kingdom’s counterpart, Mr. William Hague.
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9ja's next supermodel returns

Nigeria's next supermodel returns

Anna Okon

The 2010 edition of the hit reality show, Nigeria's next supermodel promises to be suspense packed as the organizers are leaving no stone unturned to ensure the show is a success and one that will make Nigeria proud.According to Joan Okorodudu, CEO Nigeria's next supermodel, the show which is billed to take place later in the month has all the glare and fanfare accompaniment befitting an international show. "We have several multinational companies buying into the show, it is going to be one of the best," she says...

Last year's winner, 21-year-old Aisha Bello is already putting plans in motion for a worldwide tour; she is to represent Nigeria in international modelling competitions.

As for the initial set back of entering the competition as a Muslim, she tells beauty corner that her family quickly got over their inhibitions when she was declared winner of the show.

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This is the first in a series that will provide answers to the most frequently asked questions about Philip Emeagwali’s discoveries and inventions, and will answer
specific questions, such as, Why was Emeagwali called one of the fathers of the
Internet?



How did his seventeen years in eight degree programs at five universities help him solve one of the “20 Grand Challenges” in science and engineering? Why did he



need a supercomputer that sends and receives emails as an internet to solve it? How did he get exclusive access to a supercomputer, which today costs 1.32 BILLION
dollars, according to The Wall Street Journal (October 4, 2010)?



Most importantly, how did he become a famous scientist? The key to success, Emeagwali believes, is to make discoveries and inventions and then become
famous for creating new knowledge to be taught to mankind, present and future.
The reason President Bill Clinton extolled Philip Emeagwali for creating the
knowledge now used to program the supercomputer is that Clinton understood that
the inventor is the first teacher of his invention to humanity.



Our weekly series will put the most emphasis on his discoveries and inventions.



We’ll begin with Emeagwali’s “41 patent claims,” filed 20 years ago.



Regards,



His Inventions



Philip Emeagwali scribbled the actual equations used by the oil company Exxon (now Exxon Mobil) to simulate the flow of oil, water, and gas inside its petroleum
reservoirs. Emeagwali pointed out that four forces exist inside every petroleum
reservoir; he discovered that the Exxon Mobil equation had summed only three
forces. Emeagwali correctly summed all four forces, namely: pressure,
viscosity, gravity, and inertia. After learning about his discovery, Mobil
Research and Development invited him (in a letter dated March 19, 1990) help
the company in “reservoir simulation.” It’s as abstract as the Navier-Stokes
equations listed in the “Seven Millennium Problems” but yet computably solved
by Emeagwali. His equivalent of six degrees in mathematics and engineering
helped him to discover the 36 partial derivative inertial terms and to invent
36 algorithms for solving them.



His Lectures



As an invited speaker at the world’s largest gathering of mathematicians on July 8, 1991, in Washington, D.C, Philip Emeagwali presented his discoveries and
inventions to the field’s foremost experts. From 1993 to 1998, Emeagwali
represented the world’s two premier computer societies, The IEEE Computer
Society and the Association for Computing Machinery, as their Distinguished Speaker
at Computer Science Departments in the United States. As the headline speaker
at a top science festival (on January 30, 2009, near Calcutta, India), he held
7,000 attendees spellbound for 40 minutes. When he stepped down from the stage,
the audience mobbed him like a rock star....



How “41 Patent Claims” Was Shortened to “Patents”



Stories evolve, often subtly, with each retelling by others. The retelling of the story of “the 41 patent claims” that Philip Emeagwali told on July 8, 1991 at the
International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics evolved into “41
patents.”



This conference is to mathematics what the World Cup is to soccer—unique and held only once every four years. Emeagwali told mathematicians at the conference
that he had filed 41 patent claims, which covered the 36 algorithms he had
invented for solving the 36 partial derivative inertial terms that he had
discovered.



As non-mathematicians retold his story, his “41 patent claims” was shortened to “41 patents.” Similarly, his young age of 35 years, published accurately in a
1989 interview, was repeated over and over for 21 years, which contributed to a
few mistaken tabloid media attacks claiming Emeagwali had “lied about his age.”



Philip Emeagwali told the mathematicians at the International Congress that his 41 patent claims were precise legal definitions of his algorithms for solving the
36 partial derivative inertial terms that he had discovered. He filed his 36
algorithms as 36 patent claims to avoid losing some of his rights and protection
under the law. He also filed five additional dependent claims, bringing his
total number of claims to 41.



Emeagwali stopped pursuing his patent claims because the United States Patent and Trademark Office told him that his 36 algorithms were discoveries, not
inventions. He argued that they were inventions, not discoveries, explaining
that although the Second Law of Motion encoded within his algorithms was not
patentable, his algorithmic techniques that embodied that Second Law within
supercomputers should be, because they are the discrete analogue of the 36
partial derivative inertial terms that he had discovered. In other words, they
were functions with input and output.



Patenting algorithms was a gray area in 1989.Today, it is possible to patent algorithms; however, because he publicly disclosed his inventions in 1989, the one year
filing deadline passed.



Importantly, scientific progress is only measured by discoveries, not patents. To discover means to see something that is previously unseen or unknown. Philip Emeagwali
discovered that petroleum reservoir engineers summed only three forces, instead
of summing all four forces within their oilfields. The word “invent” means the
contrivance of that which did not before exists. He invented 36 algorithms for
summing all four forces.



To invent means to originate or create as a product of the inventor’s ingenuity. It does not mean to patent. In supercomputing, it means to correctly formulate
and solve one of the “Twenty Grand Challenges” at a world-record speed. Philip
Emeagwali simulated the flow of oil, water, and gas— with the forces correctly
summed—at the then unheard of speed of 3.1 billion calculations per second. It
was a Grand Challenge that was of interest to Mobile, but completed by one man in
1989....



In summary, Philip Emeagwali received a standing ovation at the International Congress for telling the field’s foremost experts that: Exxon was falsifying
its petroleum reservoir equations and that the equations taught in universities
are not equating to what’s happening inside a petroleum reservoir. It is an
unpatented invention just as the internet is an unpatented invention. Your
dictionary defines the word “invention” without using the word “patent” and
groundbreaking inventions, such as the Internet, cannot be patented because it
has many fathers, mothers, aunts, and uncles. Most importantly, the discoverer
is the first teacher of his discovery to humanity.

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Kidnappers kill 38 policemen in Abia

The Abia Police Command has said 38 of its officers to kidnappers in the last few months.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Jonathan Johnson, made this known on Monday in Umuahia, while presenting the arms surrendered by some fleeing kidnappers to the state's governor, Theodore Orji.

Mr. Johnson said 10 officers were injured during the operations, six of them had been discharged from the hospital while the remaining four were still receiving treatment.

The commissioner said that the arms were recovered during the second amnesty programme, which the state government cancelled and that that the programme was yielding results before its cancellation.

Mr. Johnson said the arms were recovered in the kidnappers' camps.

``Some of the arms are 20 AK 47, 12 locally made AK 47, seven assault rifles, one general purpose machine gun, four rocket launchers, 15 pistols and 12 dynamites...

``Others are 23 double-barrelled guns 106 assorted magazines, gas cylinders, tool boxes and one G3riffle,'' he said.

The commissioner thanked the government for empowering the police to combat the crime, stressing that those who died during the operations had paid the supreme price to make Abia free of kidnapping.

Speaking while inspecting the arms, Mr. Orji said the police should compile the names of the dead officers for the state government to compensate their families.

The governor expressed the sympathy with the police command the bereaved families, stressing that Abia is now a safe heaven for investors.

``There was a time when Abia was synonymous with kidnapping. We tried the amnesty option and it failed before inviting the army to come to our aid,'' he said.

Mr. Orji said that the second amnesty programme was partially successful because of the harvest of arms by the committee.

The governor commended the police for their gallantry. ``I know we have efficient police force in the country but they lack adequate fire power to combat crime and criminals.

``You cannot expect a policeman to confront a criminal with a rapid machine gun,'' he remarked.

The governor stressed that his administration would continue to provide the enabling environment for the force.

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Say No To 'NAIJA' - Akunyili

The Federal Government has condemned in strong terms the use of “Naija” in place of Nigeria, saying that such usage is “very uncharitable and unpatriotic”.

Minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili, made the remarks while receiving the participants of Heir Apparent Reality Show in her office in Abuja yesterday.

Akunyili, who frowned on the continuous misrepresentation of the country's official name in place of a “corrupt” version, said: "It is very offensive to call Nigeria ‘Naija’. We are making plans to write companies to stop using the word Naija. I have heard that name Naija in adverts. I want them to go back and remove that word.

"If anybody says this is Naija, ask the person, 'Where is Naija?' We have to stop this word because it is catching up with the young. If we don't put a stop to its usage now, it will continue to project us wrongly.”

The minister's condemnation was prompted by a sentence in the presentation of the visiting group where “our world is Naija” was inserted.

Akunyili, who fervently spoke against the use of the word, ordered that the sentence be removed from the programme and changed to “our world is Nigeria”.

“Naija” is obviously a Nigerianised form of Niger, from where Nigeria derived its name...

The word is popularly used by musicians, artistes, advert managers and corporate companies and it could be positive or negative, although it is being used more positively in recent times.

It is believed to be trendier and is used by the younger generation.

Though no official condemnation of the word has been made, several reports have warned of the consequence of the usage of such words among the youths.

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Intellectual Fraud: Crisis Allegedly Rocks “Philip Emeagwali Myths”—Reports

New York [RR] New York—supercomputing applications, faster speed measured by mega-capacities makes the global community much smaller more than any other time in human history, so is the speed of accessibilites of informations, RepublicReport has gathered....

Recently, there have been intellectual pundits trading claims and counter-claims of alleged discussion of one Emeagwali’s academic credentials, which others call out as intellectual jealousy and envy, others say, “the man is an intellectual fraud”. Reports say, purported intellectual observers like Chioma Ezeilo which others declared as intellectual competitors sees Emeagwali academic record, simply: “pack of lies, half-truths, self-promotional and self-authentication”, RR has learnt.

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This page briefly addresses some specific claims appearing on Emeagwali’s self-promotional website and elsewhere. For a more in-depth discussion of Emeagwali’s “outright lies, half-truths, and numerous unsubstantiated claims,” see the article Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: “Father of the Internet” by Chioma Ezeilo.

MYTH #1:
Emeagwali made the “world’s fastest computation” in 1989

Each year since 1987, the judges for the annual Gordon Bell competition have given out multiple prizes for supercomputing applications, usually including one for performance (fastest speed), and one forprice/performance (best speed/cost ratio; specifically, “price-performance ratio as measured in megaflop/s per dollar on a genuine application”).
Despite what you may have read on the Internet, the 1989 prize for the fastest performance was awarded not to Emeagwali, but to another entrant:

In the performance category, we awarded the prize to a team from Mobil Research and Development and Thinking Machines Corp. [...] Their solution of a seismic data-processing problem ran at almost 6 Gflops on a CM-2 Connection Machine.

“Special Report: 1989 Gordon Bell Prize,” IEEE Software, May 1990, p. 101

The winning speed of 6 Gflops was almost double that of Emeagwali’s entry (3.1 Gflops, a speed that Emeagwali has repeatedly misrepresented as the “world’s fastest”). The Mobil/TMC team achieved the best price-performance ratio too, but since no entry was allowed more than one prize, the price/performance award passed to Emeagwali (who also used a CM-2 Connection Machine) even though his score in that category was about 20% worse than the leading score:

We awarded the price/performance prize to Philip Emeagwali [...] His model ran at a price/performance of slightly less than 400 Mflops per $1 million. While the Mobil/TMC team achieved almost 500 Mflops per $1 million, we decided to award only one prize per entry.

“Special Report: 1989 Gordon Bell Prize,” IEEE Software, May 1990, p. 101

See the yearly results for the performance and price/performance categories. In no year did Emeagwali achieve what he claims he did.

MYTH #2:
Emeagwali won computing’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize

In spite of efforts by Emeagwali and his admirers to hype up his $1000 Gordon Bell award as the “Nobel Prize” of computing, the rest of the computing world continues to associate that lofty label with the Turing Award, which Emeagwali has never won. The Gordon Bell prize, however, is just one of many other annual computing awards, respectable but not at all comparable to either the Nobel Prize or the Turing Award in prestige or prize money. Nor are the selection criteria analogous: Emeagwali was awarded for his performance in an annual competition, not in recognition of lasting contributions to his field.

MYTH #3:
Emeagwali is a “Father of the Internet”

1. Emeagwali’s paternity claims to the Internet are judged and found baseless. Emeagwali has not shown any evidence that he was involved with ARPA or any other research organization or company connected with the genesis of the Internet, nor did he express his ideas in technical journals or any other channel through which he could have influenced the development of the Internet during its formative stages.
2. Is there a father of the Internet? A discussion of the main contenders: JCR Licklider, Bob Taylor, Paul Baran, Donald Davies, and Lawrence Roberts.

MYTH #4:
The “Connection Machine” was invented by Emeagwali

A few Web sources expand the fallacy that Emeagwali created the fastest computer program, insisting that he was also responsible for the massively parallel supercomputer on which the program ran. However, the 65,000-processor “Connection Machine” that allowed such speedy computations was actually the brainchild of Danny Hillis and was built by Thinking Machines Corporation, the company Hillis co-founded. The fact is extensively documented on the web and is so well established that I won’t devote more attention to it.

MYTH #5:
Emeagwali has lots of patents or patent applications

The number of Emeagwali’s patents or patent applications is sometimes claimed to be as high as 30. However, a search of the USPTO and esp@cenet patent databases (as of September 2003) reveals the true number to be zero. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which has a fully searchable online database for all U.S. patents since 1976 as well as all current applications, simply has nothing on file for Emeagwali.

MYTH #6:
“Dr.” Emeagwali?

Emeagwali is frequently referred to on his own and other websites as “Dr. Philip Emeagwali” or simply “Dr. Emeagwali.” Though he did in fact enroll in a PhD program at the University of Michigan, he did not get the degree after failing his qualification examinations twice and having his thesis rejected by a committee of faculty members. Emeagwali subsequently sued the university, alleging civil rights violations and racial discrimination. His case was dismissed without trial. When Emeagwali appealed to a higher court, a three-judge panel rejected his discrimination claims unanimously.

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Amiel, Written By

With all due respect, I am very disappointed in your insistence that we honor Emeagwali’s true “achievements” even after confirming for yourself that the man is indeed a fraud of immense proportion, a self-promoting genius who is, in his claimed field of expertise, a mediocre at best. I can understand Ikhide’s frustration. The “debate” on Emeagwali’s intellectual fraud has long been settled in the Nigerian cyberspace. Only the most fanatical Nigerian and African American sentimental (as opposed to a rational) investors in black scientific heroism, still take the fool seriously. And, of course, our people back home, for whom even the mere fact of foreign residency is a validation, let alone one that is backed by aggressively deceptive self promotion. Okay, let’s do what you’re asking us to do and strip away the lies, deceptions, exaggerations, false claims, and the entire intellectual pyramid scheme as someone called Emeagwali’s internet based edifice of fraud. When we are done with that, we’re left with:
1. A guy who FAILED his PhD qualifying exam TWICE at my alma mater, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2. A guy whose doctoral research was subsequently evaluated by internal and external examiners and declared substandard.
3. A guy whose research won a minor THIRD PLACE prize in a very narrow field of applied computing. He was bumped to first place only when the teams ahead of him with higher computing speed won another prize and therefore forfeited the category to Emeagwali. In other words, he “won” by default. The prize had nothing to do with the internet or even computing as a field. It was for application of computing to oil exploration.
4. A guy who has no single published paper in a peer reviewed publication in his field
5. A guy who has no single patent or “patent pending” as he claims
6. A guy who has managed through internet trickery to get many media organizations, especially the black press, to buy into and as a result, validate his hoax. He then cites those naive, ignorant press validations, recycling them through links, which then show up on google and are then picked up by naive, hero-hunting black folks all over the world. As a fraud, it is very clever, but it is still a fraud and a huge one at that.
7. A guy who has parlayed his falsehoods into all kinds of lucrative speaking engagements in black America, Nigeria, and the Caribbean, deceiving our people who are hungry for heroes and collecting their hard earned money to make them feel good about themselves.
8. A guy who routinely goes around calling himself professor and Dr but who has never taught a university class, failed his PhD, and is not an academic.
I can go on, but let me not bore you with that your own research has revealed to you already. So, here you have a guy whose only achievement is the Gordon Bell Prize ($1000), which he won by default after coming THIRD and which he fraudulently calls “the Nobel Prize of Computing.” I put it to you that there are THOUSANDS of Nigerians whose research have won such narrow prizes in their fields and won not by default or by coming THIRD but by beating the competition. They don’t make noise or self-promote. They don’t lie about themselves. They don’t call themselves “Africa’s greatest scientist,” “father of the internet,” etc. Even on this list, there are many scientists who have won more prestigious prizes and awards. Our own Joseph Igietseme recently led a team of scientists at the prestigious CDC to win a highly coveted award in the field of biomedical research. The man did not grab a megaphone to announce that he was the greatest African scientist alive.
Has Nigeria honored the genuine achievers in our midst? How about our own Oga Falola, has he been given a national award let alone being put on a postage stamp? How about Pius Adesanmi and many others who have been making us proud by hauling in prestigious literary prizes from across the world; have they been as much as recognized in Nigeria?
If we’re desperate for heroes, why don’t we honor genuine ones? Why validate liars and frauds like Emeagwali who have actually brought dishonor to the country as their claims have been serially debunked and have been sometimes generalized to Nigerians and “their 419 ways”? Remember that every time their false claims are debunked their nationality and Africanness are referenced. How can that be good for a country that has genuine scientific pioneers working in the most prestigious and cutting edge scientific institutions in the world (CDC, NASA, etc).
As we speak, there is another fraud who has similarly cast a spell on home audiences, hauling in cash and recognition. Dr. Gabriel Oyibo self-describes as a five time Nobel Prize nominee even though Nobel nominations are not revealed until at least a hundred years or so, and even though his peers cannot even vouch for the validity of his bizarre claims, which reside at the confusing intersection of religion, metaphysics, African history and mythology, and physics!
A trained physicist, the man, who cannot even hold down an academic job and has no impressive research pedigree to speak of, claims that he has invented a theory of everything, which he calls GAGUT! The Nigerian national assembly issued a declaration honoring him as a great African scientist! He, too, is on a Nigerian postal stamp!
Oyibo is in some respect even worse than Emeagwali since he actually has a PhD and used to have an adjunct teaching position that gives him a perfect cover to perpetrate his deception. At least Emeagwali is a good motivational public speaker and writer (which I think is his actual calling in life). The GAGUT man speaks in an incomprehensible metaphysical language that is clearly a sign of lunacy.
A country that honors frauds and ignores true achievers and truthful, quiet heroes deserves what is happening to her.

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Prince William and Kate Middleton are engaged and will marry next year, Clarence House announced today.

William, 28, proposed during a holiday in Kenya last month after asking Kate's father for his daughter's hand.

The couple have been together for eight years and Kate had been dubbed 'Waity Katy' amid criticism that she hanging on for a proposal but now her wait is over.


The pair have been together for eight years and have recently been spending much of their time in north Wales where William is a search and rescue pilot.

Their wedding, scheduled for 2011, will be the biggest royal event since the wedding of William's mother and father in the 80s.

Clarence House said: 'The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton.

'The wedding will take place in the Spring or Summer of 2011, in London. Further details about the wedding day will be announced in due course.

'Prince William and Miss Middleton became engaged in October during a private holiday in Kenya.

'Prince William has informed The Queen and other close members of his family. Prince William has also sought the permission of Miss Middleton's father.

'Following the marriage, the couple will live in north Wales, where Prince William will continue to serve with the Royal Air Force.'It is claimed personnel at Westminster Abbey have been contacted about arranging a royal wedding in the second week of August. ...

David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband both said they were 'delighted' for the couple.

The Prime Minister was told of the engagement during the Cabinet meeting this morning and relayed it to ministers.

Earlier this month, the Daily Mail exclusively revealed Kate Middleton's parents were guests at a private shooting party on the Queen's Scottish estate.

The move was seen as highly symbolic and an indication that the middle-clas Middleton family were now firmly being welcomed into the royal fold.

It is now clear that Kate and William, who are both 28, were already engaged at the time of the visit to Birkhall, Prince Charles' private residence on the Balmoral estate.

The invitation to Mr Middleton, a former airline despatcher, and ex-air hostess Carole shows the royal family were keen to start off on the right foot as Kate edges to becoming a Princess.

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