ASUU Strike, Goldie and Mercy Johnson top Trending Google Nigeria searches in 2013.

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ASUU Strike ranks No. 1 in the Top Trending Events. When you check its graph, you see how long Nigerians waited and how much they hoped for its end.

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  Goldie Harvey.

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• Do you know what else many of us searched for? That which you crave for, though may deny it. Yeah, it’s LOVE.

Images via: jaguda.com
Source: Google.

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Ekeonunwa Market --- Is This a Dumpsite or Market?

A few days ago, I went to Ekeonunwa market to buy a few stuffs and I was shocked by what I saw inside there. I know that most markets around here are usually filthy, but this one was too much --- a large dump truck that was literally overflowing with garbage seated in the midst of the traders. It was as if the garbage was among the goods on display. What was most disgusting was that some of these traders were even leaning on the truck. And as you can imagine, the whole place stank like what-I-can’t-say.

Later, I discovered that there were more of those trucks, also filled to the brim, inside this market.

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Chibby Arena is Now Enabled with Facebook Comment Box.

I have added Facebook comment box to my blog. So, you can now comment on your favourite posts using your facebook ID. There is also an option for Yahoo!, AOL or Hotmail accounts. Below this box is another comment box powered by Blogger in which you can use your Google account, LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad, AIM and OpenID; or make an anonymous comment. It works on both mobile and web versions of this blog. Enjoy.

Woman Drowns Her Baby for Being "Incompatible" with Her Love Life.

A French mother named Fabienne Kabua has confessed to drowning her 15-months-old daughter in the English Channel. Ms Kabou, who now faces life imprisonment, told the police on Saturday that she committed the dastardly act after deciding that "motherhood was 'incompatible' with her love life with her daughter's father".

The woman is said to have checked into a hotel in Berck sur Mer with her baby, Adelaide, on November 19; and CCTV footage shows her pushing her daughter in a pram to the coast of Berck sur Mer on that same day. , "The next day, baby Adelaide was found dead, strapped in a pushchair submerged in the river, by a fisherman".

The police, after a 10-days nationwide search, were able to track down the mother using DNA found on the pram.

Image via: Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog.

Source: Mail Online.

ASUU Gives New Demands.

Do you think this ASUU strike is for the betterment of Nigerian students?

After the last meeting ASUU had with the President, one had hoped that the lingering five-month strike would be called off very soon. Instead, ASUU gave the Federal Government a set of new demands which “must be met” before it will ever re-open our universities. The new demands include:

1. “The government within two weeks begin the release and distribution of the N200 billionit pledged to inject into the system”.
2. “The government renegotiates the 2009 agreement by 2014 and that the Attorney-General of the Federation be made a signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)”.

However, the Federal Government, through the supervising Minister of Education, has expressed its disappointment with ASUU and warned that all lecturers must go back to work on or before December 4, 2013 or lose their jobs. The minister said: “…it is only in this country where Mr. President will sit with you for over 13 hours and all issues have been resolved and you promised that within one week you will get back to us only to see a letter now giving new conditions outside what we have discussed. So, if anybody thinks that it is against the labour laws, well, they have a right to challenge government at the industrial court…”

ASUU, by now, ought to know that students are tired of waiting for them; and it no longer draws any sympathy from the Nigerian public.

Image Source: Ynaija.com.

Source: The Sun News.

ASUU Strike --- Flavour's “Chinny Baby” remixed to “ASUU Baby”.

This ASUU strike is strong. While I was listening to the radio this morning, initially, I thought I was hearing the remix of Flavour’s “Chinny Baby” but not until I heard “ASUU abeg o, when are you calling off the strike…or do we have to wait till November or December?” that I knew it has happened again --- somebody has been inspired! 

I learnt that the “remix” was sung by Alloy, a student of Uniport. I was able to record some part of it directly from the radio with my phone. Click on the video below to listen to the song by Alloy as I recorded it. 

Dowload the remix of "Chinny Baby" (290 kb).

#ASUU #Nigeria.

Latest Gist on Umuahia Main Market Demolition --- Man Dies in a Store.

There is this story that one man from Ubakala went into one of the abandoned shops on Sunday (27^th October) to remove its roofing rods but was killed when the roof crashed down on him. It is not yet clear whether the shop was his or not, but a popular opinion is that “he had gone to take what didn't belong to him”.

About half of the old market has been demolished.

People scrambling for store allocation at Umuahia Ultra-modern Market.

The Abia State Government provided buses that ferry people to and fro the new market, but it’s not free. You pay N30 only --- a difference of N20 less than what you’ll pay to private commercial bus drivers.

Passengers boarding a “market shuttle”.

Inside one of the “market shuttles”.

Motor Park inside the new market still under construction.

Business activities going on in the new market.

Business activities going on in the new market.

Business activities going on in the new market.

Welcome to “Malaysia” --- the Onuimo Market.

This is Malaysia.

I’m not kidding. That’s what the traders there call the market. Though the place doesn’t look anything like real Malaysia, I think its traders dubbed it “Malaysia” because it provides them with a place to do business far away from their homes in Umuahia --- a sort of the “market abroad”.

Malaysia Market Buildings.

Business activities going on inside “Malaysia”.

Business activities going on inside “Malaysia”.

#Malaysia of Onuimo #Umuahia main market.

BRITAIN TO BE HIT BY WORST ST. JUDE STORM TODAY.

The worst storm since the Great Storm of 1987 is forecast to hit the United Kingdom today, bringing heavy rain, hurricane-force winds and the expectation of flooding and transport disruption. The storm is named after St. Jude, the patron saint of desperate cases, whose feast day is today.

The storm is expected to bring 130km an hour winds and heavy rain to Britain early this morning. The strongest winds could affect areas north of London and the Midlands, the Met Office said.

At least 60 flights were cancelled at Heathrow airport and rail networks cancelled trains citing the high risk of trees and other debris expected to fall on train lines.

Source: ALJAZEERA.

Pope Suspends German ‘Luxury Bishop’.

Bishop Franz-Peter (Left) and Pope Francis (Right).

Pope Francis has suspended indefinitely a German prelate, Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, for spending $43 million of Church funds on his residence. The Vatican, in a statement on Wednesday, said that "The Holy See deems it appropriate to authorise a period of leave from the diocese for Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst". It did not specify how long the bishop would have to stay away but added that this would depend on an analysis of the finances of his Limburg diocese and the responsibilities for its high costs.

Bishop Franz-Peter in a vintage BMW.

The Bishop has been dubbed "the luxury bishop" by the German media after an audit of his spending, ordered after a Vatican monitor visited Limburg last month, revealed the residence cost at least six times more than planned.

German media, citing official documents, said the residence had been fitted with:

• A free-standing bath that cost 15,000 euros.
• A conference table that cost 25,000 euros.
• A private chapel for 2.9 million euros.

The Central Committee of German Catholics, a body that brings together all the Catholic lay associations in the country, said it was satisfied with the decision to suspend the bishop. The group’s president, Alois Glueck said that "Pope Francis' decision offers a chance at a new beginning in the diocese of Limburg where the situation has become heavy in recent weeks both for believers there and for the Church in Germany as a whole".

The scandal has also put pressure on German bishops for more financial transparency in the entire Church in their country, forcing them to scrap centuries of secrecy over the reporting of the value of their private endowments.

Source: ALJAZEERA.

UMUAHIA MAIN MARKET TO BE DEMOLISHED TODAY.

Sunday, the 20^th day of October 2013, was the last day the main market of Umuahia served the residents of the city as well as its visitors.

The traders of Umuahia Main Market were advised to move into the new Ultra-modern Market Ubani, which is about 5 kilometers from the old one.

 

Although traders have packed into this new market, some of them prefer going the opposite direction --- 8 kilometers away from Umuahia, to the market in Onuimo.

TOP 5 WAYS TO GET SMARTER.

It is a common saying that “examination is not a true test of intelligence” but some people still believe that intelligence can be measured by IQ-test scores and grade point averages. Others see it as common sense and the ability to outwit the other person. Regardless of how you judge intelligence, it always centers on the human brain.

You can improve your intelligence or, in other words, become smarter by increasing your brain power. And there are five special but simple ways to do this.

     1. Take Care of your body.

Physical exercise helps to improve the health of both the body and the brain because it increases the blood flow through your body (including the brain) thereby increasing the oxygen and glucose levels in your brain. Also, the coordination it takes to perform exercises gives the brain a workout especially if you are trying something new.

Eating the right food is important. Foods like fish oil, eggs, vegetable and herbal tea nourish the body as well as the brain.

     2. Exercise your Brain.

The brain, like many other parts of the body, requires regular exercise in order to maintain strength and vitality. There are various brain exercises you can to perform to strengthen your brain. They include games like cross puzzles, scrabble, soduko and other word– and number–based brain teasers; and academic exercises like reading and solving mathematical problems. If you prefer methods that don’t necessarily require academic skills, you can try brushing your teeth with the opposite hand or walking a different way to work.

     3. Have some sleep.

During sleep, your brain does a little night-time filing and the information from the previous day is catalogued and put in the proper mental folders. This enables you to recall this information easily in future.

     4. Meditate.

No matter what your style may be, meditation generally involves quiet and focused breathing in which the practitioner is able to achieve a state of mental calm. Basically, this state of mental calm is believed to be an enlightened state of consciousness. A study has shown that regular meditation can increase the size of parts of the cerebral cortex and it is believed that memory, attention span and focus are enhanced through meditation.

     5. Ingest Bacteria.

This is ridiculous, isn't it? But some scientists believe that a common, harmless soil bacterium can increase human brain power. However, you don’t have to eat dirt to ingest these bacteria. There are certain things you can do in which you’ll be exposed to the bacteria, for instance: gardening and merely walking past a garbage dump.

Source: Bryant, Charles W Bryant.  "Top 5 Ways to Get Smarter" 21 December 2010.  HowStuffWorks.com. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/5-ways-get-smarter.htm> 19 October 2013.

ASUU, FG 2009 AGREEMENT --- A COPY OF THE AGREEMENT.

Before I got admission into higher institution, I had been hearing of ASUU strike but never actually experienced it until I entered into the university. During my first year in school (in 2009) I had my first taste of ASUU industrial action --- a warning strike and then a full-blown strike that lasted for about three months. When it was called off and we resumed school; I had to trace my room because I couldn't remember my room number. I also noticed that some of my colleagues had forgotten their matriculation numbers.

Since then, it has been “one year, one ASUU strike” in our academic calendar. And now that I’m in my final year, ASUU unfailingly embarked on the annual fist fight with the FG. We heard that they had an agreement in 2009 before that year’s strike was called off. Nevertheless, the reason for this year’s ASUU strike was also the reason for that 2009 strike and had been the same reason for the series of ASUU strikes since that year. ASUU accuses the Federal Government of not implementing the agreement they had in 2009.

Just recently, I saw a post by +Nigerian News Portal  Portal that allegedly contains that same ASUU, FG 2009 Agreement.

Click here to view/download a copy of the ASUU/ FG 2009 Agreement.

#ASUU Strike #ASUU FG Agreement.