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(designed by Felix Akintunde) I have realized something about Nigerians; when it comes to intellect, we are intact, the major challenge we have is that nowhere to use the brain as it is being expected. Nevertheless, a Nigerian woke up in early 'momo,' thought about how to have a version of Nigeria social network like the one you are used to, to connect Nigerians, showing it to the world that Nigerians are very intelligent too. Just like facebook, twitter created for people to meet their friends, connect with new people, but they are all created foreigners and they are successful. You can imagine another Nigeria social network named 'PuChat' so sign up now and meet new people in new social network, 'PuChat.' It is created by Nigerian, so let's embrace it. If you see, whoa! SIGN UP NOW!

Nnanna Maduka is a Nollyhood actress, with passion for acting, she has been in theatre right from school, married some month ago, so here she expresses her mind. She joined Nollyhood during the ASUU strike when she was in the university-now she is somebody. Maybe ASUU strike will lead you to success. What are you doing in ASUU strike now? Read Nnanna Maduka's life experience to choose your model...here we go. Why did you come into Nollyhood? I came into Nollywood during Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike, and after that I went back to school. My acting initially was one leg in and the other out. After my one year compulsory youth service in 2008, I came back fully and continued with what I have passion for. How many movies have you featured in? I have featured in so many movies. I think I have lost count but maybe about 30 or 40 movies in number What is the role you would never accept no matter how much is at stake? It is the role where I have to g...

   It is so funny to hear that animal is arrested for going against the traffic rules. The donkey above was arrested by the traffic agents when the animal was found wandering on the street.     With this, what is your opinion? Just leave your comment.

The Association of Staff Union of the University, ASUU, has taken a quick step over the lingering crisis going on between the association and the management of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, AAUA. The university expresses its feeling over the ongoing ASUU strike. AAUA, in a statement released by the management of the university, ordered students of the institution to resume to school on Monday 25 th , 2013 while lecturers begin in 2 nd  December, 2013 as well to start the 2 nd semester academic calendar which was truncated by the appalling ASUU strike. But ASUU has urged members of the public not to desist the information released by the management of the university. The association called on all members to stay calm still their request is totally granted so that the struggles will not end up without positive achievement.

Today our amiable president Goodluck Jonathan is 56; may he live long on earth and paddle this country to the greater height.

       Over five decades now, Nigerians have been living in a great political dire, without actual changes, the level of poverty increases every day like the wild fire but no government has made their dreams become a reality for the large percentage of the citizens living in the country. There is no how far the snake long, we cannot set fire to it, equally to with its height – only idea is needed to kill the devil. The idea is ‘if money is spent, money will come;’ if citizens are given salary per month, government will also gain more money. How?        With the total population of 138,283,240 as at 2008, the people, average Nigerian found it difficult to acquire three square meals per day. Relating to the national income, as at 2012, Nigeria GDP,Purchasing Power Parity, PPP, 3 rd largest within Africa (behind South Africa and Egypt); PPP trebled from $170billion in 2000 to $451 billion in 2012.  That is the estimate of size of t...

    Nigeria is no more a lad when it comes to the area of electoral processes. Since 1960 when the nation has been wearing the sovereign garment which marked the country as the independent one. We manage our potentials, we govern ourselves and no influence as during the colonialism. With three tiers of government, four years in office, as it is written down, there must be poll to fix out the credible leaders. Is all our elections bring credible leaders?      In Nigeria, except the June 12 1993 election that was marked locally, internationally as the credible one but the credible leader was not on the chair of honour. Only thing we heard afterward was the deceleration of his death. The country managed to live in destitute. It so ironical that a nation that is blessed with both human and natural resources can still bite her fingers at the end of the day.    With the aim to halt this, Nigerians have been looking for ways of getting out this awful co...

        Only a tiny percentage of plant species are directly used by humans for food, shelter, fiber, and drugs. At the head of the list are rice, wheat, corn, legumes, cotton, conifers, and tobacco, on which whole economies and nations depend. Of even greater importance to humans are the indirect benefits reaped from the entire plant kingdom and its more than 1 billion years of carrying out photosynthesis. Plants have laid down the fossil fuels that provide power for industrial society, and throughout their long history plants have supplied sufficient oxygen to the atmosphere to support the evolution of higher animals. Today the world's biomass is composed overwhelmingly of plants, which not only underpin almost all food webs, but also modify climates and create and hold down soil, making what would otherwise be stony, sandy masses habitable for life.     Fruit, another ingredient of life, has, incredibly helped humans to sustain a grea...

                      The picture above represent some university students who have earn their certificate of merit before they graduate due to this ASUU strike.   You can remember that I said this in my previous post titled 'ASUU Should Suspend the Strike in Honour of Iyayi.'  Compare the above picture to this....    

In every walk of life, there are many things happening around the globe that many have no idea of its cause. Such may be disease either hereditary or infected by one way or the other. Sometimes it may be self-nonchalant-attitude due to the negligence – sometimes you may not be aware of, so take note of these tips on how you can prevent hypertensive mind presently or future. 1.       Avoid shouting at the top of your voice 2.       Never take anything alcoholic 3.       When you are vexed, caution yourself 4.       Avoid anger 5.       Avoid any unnecessary argument that may lead to nagging pain between you and the opponent. 6.       Never think too much 7.       When there is break up, don’t think about your lost 8.       Forgive easily 9.       B...

    Not less than four months now that the academic activities in public universities in Nigeria had gone to the stream of memory due to the marathon strike the Association of Staff Union of the Universities ASUU embarked on purposely to secure funds from the federal government of the country with the aim of rebuilding the decayed structured in the federal universities across the nation. The journey started well, ASUU keeps walking on eggshells but the federal government failed to make the dream of 2009 between the association and the highest cadre of government becomes a reality.     Due to this fact, ASUU walks on their talk as they say ‘no money no work’ and the government, in the same breathe, ‘no work no pay,’ so the battle begun since July first this year, continuing to rain up to this moment. The hope arose when the sun of the strike reached the middle of the sky, the president called for the  re-conciliatory  meeting in order to put a stop to the...

EDUCATION IN NIGERIA, THE BEST IN AFRICA?

    Now the details on how professor Festus Iyayi, the former president of Association of Staff Union of Universities ASUU, could not survive the motor accident along Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Tuesday. Iyayi lost his life on his way to the norther chapter of the association for an executive meeting.  While on the way, it was learnt that the Kogi State police convoy brushed the part where Prof. Iyayi sat and an object went straight to his heart.    In relation to that, the deceased was hypertensive as he was so hypertensive at the time of the accident. As a hypertension patient, he was with NOVASC, an anti-hypertensive drug. He was also with the daily newspaper before he kicked the bucket.   The sole administrator of the Kogi State Specialist Hospital disclosed that the death of Iyayi was a destined incidence as there was no way to prevent the destiny.    "I believe that what will be will be. Iyayi was just destined to die. This was because no...

Former president of Association of Staff Union of Universies, Prof. Fustus Iyayi, died in a motor accident yesterday on the way to the meeting with norther chapter of ASUU. The accident occurred in a bid to avoid collision with the police vehicle that conveyed the governor of Kogi State-Iyayi car somersaulted countless time before the crash.   The accident which occurred in Lokoja-Abuja Expressway, Iyayi, award wining Nigerian writer, a lecturer who was unlucky in the accident visited his grand fathers at 66 while others in the vehicle were in critical condition.  The incident has led to the postponement of the ASUU meeting which was scheduled to hold today Wednesday.   All, including the president of the country condoled with the family of the decease.  

Association of Staff Union of the Universities may soon call off the strike this week as some universities, like University of Ibadan UI, Amadu Bello University ABU and others supported the suspension of ASUU strike which is more than four Months now.    Twenty-eight chapters supported the suspension, including University of Abuja while eight says universities teachers should continue the strike.     It is confirmed that the association is waiting for the evidence of the pledge that president vowed to give 220b to the universities yearly as part of the budget to restructure the decayed buildings in the universities.      Also, the association has urged the government to pay withheld three Months arrears and stop the slang 'no work no pay.'      However, the vote by some 28 chapters of the association is a new development that worn a new garment for the ASUU's marathon strike. It is previewed that the association may call of the st...

                          -                       “Do not step on the thorns Look forward and gaze backward To see my light in your path, Dangling in your footsteps.” “Your beauty is the silver Your heart is the gold While your height is gaze Of my eyes.” “Never mind the feeling Of yester-night The moon might forget the star But the star cannot erase the moon You are the moon.”

                                                             “Don’t forget the last hour                           When the moon shined to our gloomy eyes                           It may not end in vain, remember                           I’m in your vein.”

"I never imagine the darkness of the night   but the florescent of your eyes illuminates love   to my heart, so I live in the dreams of your eyes." "Never forget the journey of last night When I entered the stream of your heart The aim was to have dreams But I left my heart in the Blanket of your chest." BY;Olaniyi Opeyemi

God described them in different colors, shapes and sound just for some purposes; sometimes for protection and it may even be that they are their to scare human. You fear animals? Watch this....

Brian Zembic, a magician, gambler in Las Vegas Nevada, got implants breast and sustained it for over sixteen years. He did this when his friend bet $100,000 that he could not sustain it for one year. Since 1996, it now over sixteen years now that Brian is living with the artificial breast, additional $10,000 is the bonus for him that he sustains the breast for each year in his lifestyle. Watch how he maintained his life since the beginning of time.

D'banj is now in close affairs with Tonto Dikel. the rumor is going on that he is producing for her to the extent that he signed for her label.

 View minutes ago, a gang of  armed robber accosted Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme secretariat in Gbodofon, Osogbo, State of Osun and stole a huge amount of money expected to be paid for OYES.   With immediate effect following the assistance of Nigerian Police Force, the bandits were followed as they were running, with Siena and Toyota Camry.   One of them was arrested when their vehicle, ‘Siena’ tumbled.  The thief was being taken to the police headquarters in Osogbo.

Aishat Farooq became pregnant in her second year while in University of Ilorin to study Zoology, then she was 18. Due to the unwanted pregnancy, she dropped out of school to nurse her baby.   Today, at 25, she has a great story to tell when she become the best graduating student with Cumulative Grade 4.93 in Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State.     “I hope my story will inspire at least one person to change his or her circumstance. I was pregnant at 18 and by 19 I was already a mother. I had disappointed my father who believed so much in me. He had such big dreams for me and feared the dreams would become unfulfilled,” she said Everyone can succeed in life in case one put more effort to one's action.

One month ago when three teenagers was arrested in Lagos for illegal stowaway, yesterday, another teenager whose name withheld attempted stowaway but later arrested at air side in airport, Lagos, by the security men and he was taken away.    He was arrested before the plane flight out of the airport but no one can say the exactly where he was taken to during the incident.    It has now become culture for the teenagers; first was Daniel Ihekina who attempted stowaway from Benin to Lagos, fortunately he was so lucky-qualified for scholarship after his arrest. What is the consequence for this?    It it now certain that the nation's challenges has grown wings, not only father can view, including mother, children too. What is the way out?

    Association of Staff Union of Universities may heal their persisting  four-month-hold   industrial strike today. This is realized due to the invitation for dialogue the president sent last week, to hold an indoor meeting with the head of ASUU today. The meeting is the preview of hope that may rise probably this week, so ASUU may end their strike and students resume to school afterward.    However the association has urged the president, in case there is no positive outlook, there is should be no threat to forceful re-open the Universities in the country because it may end up with no avail.