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A cacophony of ideologies, opinions…. We are a rare assortment of silently hopeful individuals, complacently hopeless ones and insolent specimens, just to mention a few, who occupy this noble space created almost six decades ago.
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Yes. Life in Nigeria may not be easy especially for those who have no opportunity to dip their hands in the national treasury, even if it’s for once. It may also not be easy for someone who had that opportunity but who allowed the treasury to slip off his hands. Sometimes, however, personal integrity, which doesn’t get talked about often, is more important than keeping a job. And that is if such a job robs you of your integrity; that’s if you care about the definition of integrity in the dictionaries of the world anyway.
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This na the Facebook Deactivation agreement signed between a Boston father and em 14-year-old daughter. The daughter go get $200 if she no log into her Facebook account for the next five months. hmmm…
This na to break her Facebook addiction.
The girl’s father, Paul Baier yarn “It was her idea, which I fully support,” “She wants to earn money and also finds Facebook a distraction and a waste of time sometimes.”
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A passionate defence of the human being who today is undervalued by a culture that reduces him to “cog in a productive and financial mechanism that towers over him”; addressing the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace – whom he received in Audience on Monday morning, 3 December, in the Consistory Hall – Benedict XVI enlisted the Church’s social doctrine to vigorously reaffirm the truth about man, exalting his primacy as “constitutively transcendent” in comparison with all “other earthly beings and goods”.
The Pope clearly denounces a society where, “although the defence of rights has advanced by leaps and bounds in our time, today’s culture, marked among other things by a utilitarian individualism and a technocratic economism, tends to undervalue the person. The latter is conceived of as a “fluid” being, with no lasting consistence. In spite of being immersed in an infinite network of relations and communication the person today often appears paradoxically as an isolated being, because he is indifferent with regard to the constitutive relationship of his being – which is the root of all other relationships – his relationship with God”. Today the human being “is considered in a mainly biological key or as “human capital”, as a ‘resource’”. And although the dignity of the person continues to be proclaimed, new ideologies are being affirmed – and the Pope lists that “of sexual and reproductive rights, or of an immoderate financial capitalism that prevails over politics and takes the real economy apart” – which contribute, increasingly, to perceiving “the dependent worker and his or her work as minor goods, and to undermining the natural foundations of society, especially the family”.
The duty of Christians, the Pontiff says, is to commit themselves to a “new evangelization of society” that can help to “topple modern idols, replace individualism materialistic consumerism and the technocracy with the culture of brotherhood and giving freely, of solidary love”.
An “authority” is necessary, he recalls, citing John XXIII’s Pacem in Terris, which can build a world community “motivated by love for the common good of the human family”. This would mean, he adds, replacing the idea of a “super-power concentrated in the hands of the few, that would dominate all the peoples, exploiting the weakest”, with the concept of an authority understood above all, “as a moral force, a faculty to influence in accordance with reason, namely, as a shared authority, limited by competence and by law”.
The Pope finally concludes by expressing his desire for a serious reflection on the need for a reform of the international financial and monetary system.
Police arrested one Indian lady for commenting on political issue on her facebook account and another for ‘Like’ing that comment. Wetin be that one? Person don lose em freedom be that o. Make I dey watch before ‘Like’ing comments?
Shaheen Dhada, 21, wey be medical student for India and wey dey live on the outskirts of Mumbai, dey vex.
Her vexation be say “when the right-wing Hindu political leader Bal K. Thackeray died last weekend, the city of Mumbai responded with a practiced, if anxious, efficiency. Merchants hurriedly closed their shops. Traffic thickened as people tried to rush home. India’s most populous city, a global financial center and moviemaking capital, was effectively shut down. Like most people, she understood what was happening: Mr. Thackeray’s hard-line Shiv Sena party has dominated Mumbai for decades, often using intimidation, violence or vandalism to enforce citywide strikes or bans against certain movies. This time, Shiv Sena wanted a citywide signal of deference and respect for Mr. Thackeray.”
All that one na English wey New York Times yarn about the issue.
Wetin she yarn on her facebook page simple, “Why should an entire city be involuntarily shuttered to mark the death of a politician?”
And em friend, Renu Srinivasan, 20, read the post and press “like.” Shikena!
blah blah blah. Na so dem arrest the two of dem. People sef go destroy em Uncle Hospital blah blah blah
As for Ms. Dhada and Ms. Srinivasan, dem release dem on bail on Monday. The case don stir so much condemnation that the top police official in Mumbai don order an investigation into the arrests.
For now, though, the two young women dey wait their first hearings in court. Na wa. And the Indian people dey vex plenty (that, na outrage).
The fear of facebook cooments and ‘Like’ na the father and mother of wisdom.
You need more details? Go get ’em in her own book, “Shot Girls”
This na the pix-or wey President Obama use for twitter when he yarn his “Four years more” short tweet.
These three words together with the pix-or don become the most popular tweet ever in the history of Twitter. That is to say, Twitter never see this kin’ thing before o.
One hour after Oga post am, 350,000 people don retweet am. As at the time of this writing, 716,020 people na em don retweet am. Em get 247,434 favourites. Gbege. Just 15 hours after being tweeted.
I beg, retweet me o. Oga na master. Make lakunlescrews sef break record…haba.
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