Typical English hypocrisy: England boss Phil Neville 'ashamed' by Cameroon behavior

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England boss Phil Neville said he was "ashamed" by Cameroon's behavior after a World Cup last-16 victory he said "didn't feel like football".

The English women booked a quarter-final spot after securing a controversial 3-0 win against Cameroon.

But the game was marred by Cameroon's extraordinary reaction to two video assistant referee decisions and several poor challenges on England's players.

"I am completely and utterly ashamed of the opposition," Neville said.

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"When I started in management, I think it was Arsene Wenger that told me: The team mirror the manager.

"If that was my team - and it will never be any of my players - they would never play for England again, with that kind of behavior.

"At times, we probably didn't know whether the game would continue.

"It didn't feel like football. It was a good win but that wasn't a World Cup last-16 tie in terms of behavior that I want to see from footballers.

"This is going out worldwide. I didn't enjoy it, the players didn't enjoy it. My players kept their concentration fantastically, but those images are going out worldwide about how to act, the young girls playing all over the world that are seeing that behavior. For me, it's not right.

"My daughter wants to be a footballer and if she watches that she will think: 'No, I want to play netball.'"

Editor's Commentary: One wonders what Phil would have said or done if the tables were turned. As for his daughter choosing to play netball "because of the actions of the Cameroon players", that would actually be a better option if genealogy traits were considered, as her father was a terrible football player. And people wonder why no one ever wants the English to win anything.  

Attention to detail: Minister still on government website over a year after he resigned and seems Jonathan's aides can't spell either.....

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Nigeria's former Minister of State for Health, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate seemingly still has his profile on the website of the Nigerian government even though he resigned from his post over a year ago.

Ironically enough, that same page has the correct profile of the current Health Minister, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu.

Dr. Pate was a one-time Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).

He resigned his position on July 24 2013 to join Duke University’s Global Health Institute in the United States.

The current occupant of Dr. Pate's former office is Dr. Khaliru Alhassan, a former Director of Medical Services and Public Health at the Ministry of Health.

Such lack of attention-to-detail and general sense of disorganization can generally be seen across various structures of the Jonathan administration.

A website update to include an image upload of the current occupant of the office should be rather easy, but then again, with the laissez-faire disposition one has come to associate with most things in the halls of government in Nigeria, this should come as no surprise.

Even on President Goodluck Jonathan's LinkedIn page, the word 'Federal' is spelled as both 'Fedral' and 'Federal' in the same sentence.

It would seem that none of the president's '36 connections' thought much of the apparent error on a professional page of the leader of the most populous and influential black nation on earth, enough to bring it to his attention.  

On the other hand, when your connections include the likes of Asari Dokubo (Mr. 'he no fit), it becomes easy to see why that obvious 'anomaly' has been there since Jonathan assumed office. 

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PROFILE:Dr Muhammad Ali Pate (Born 6 September 1968) is Minister for State for Health in Nigeria. His appointment in July 2011 follows his success as the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), in Abuja, Nigeria.He also serves on the agenda committee of the World Economic Forum.Dr Pate is an American Board-Certified MD in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, with an MBA (Health Sector Concentration) from Duke University USA.He also has a Masters in Health System Management from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Global Health of the Duke University Global Health Institute. He is also a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Vaccination and Humanitarian Emergencies at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva.

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Quitting with style and brand distinction.....

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In a still soft economy and under an administration that has been anything but business-friendly, many are finding ways to distinguish themselves and take "branded risks", with a view to exploring what is out there.

One such person is Michael Peggs, a former strategic partner of development at Google.

In the age of Obama (no political pun intended), while some are leery to either leave their current employment or take the entrepreneurial leap-of-faith, many like Michael, are saying adieu with class and brand distinction (no pun intended either).

In this roughly 3 minute video (set to Frank Sinatra's "My Way") , Michael not only says goodbye from the premises of his much-loved former employer, but also cuts a rather relaxed, composed and jovial demeanor in the process.

More and more, many are finding unique ways to stay ahead of the game and as Michael rightly intimated in this video, you can't win if you don't play.

The video currently has almost 300,000 views.

Outrage! Probation officer at Oscar Pistorius' sentencing hearing recommends house arrest and community service?

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A probation officer appearing for the defense at the sentencing hearing of Oscar Pistorius, has recommended that the Olympic blade-runner should not face jail time, but instead serve community service and house arrest.

Now, that is just plain egregious and again speaks to the unbecoming arrogance of Pistorius and his defense team.

As expected, the family of the murdered Reeva Steenkamp as well as the prosecutor Gerrie Nel were extremely angry with the latter describing the suggestion as "shockingly inappropriate".

You can follow the Pistorius sentencing here.

Source: BBC News Africa

God loves Nigeria.....

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By Femi Fani-Kayode

God loves Nigeria so much. They created Ebola in their demonic labs for bio weapons. 

They sent the disease to our shores through an insane Liberian but the Lord defended us and refused to allow it to take root in our shores.

The watchers prayed “return to sender” and Ebola was sent back to Houston through another insane Liberian. 

Now they seek to learn lessons from the Nigeria they seek to destroy about how to “contain Ebola."

They refused to label Boko Haram as a terrorist organisation until we begged them to do so and until they had killed 25,000 Nigerians.

They refused to sell us arms to fight the Haramites and when we approached other nations to do so they told them to turn us down.

Yet God was with us, we sourced those arms ourselves and ever since then the tied has turned and our gallant soldiers are winning the war against Boko Haram.

What on earth have we done that they seek to bring us to our knees and decimate our country with terror and disease? Have we not played the fool to them enough and have we not bowed to them on bended knees for the last 54 years? 

Yet they seek to effect their prophecy that chaos must envelop Nigeria and that our country must break up by 2015.

They seek to ensure that we are enveloped in a sea of carnage and fratricidal butchery. In the light of all this numerous questions must be asked? Who is really behind Boko Haram and how come they have more sophisticated arms than the Nigerian military? Who supplies them with those arms and all that training? Is it the same forces that covertly train, arm and supply ISIS, Al Nusra and Daesh and that used them in Syria to topple Bashar Al Assad and in Iraq to push Nouri Al Malaki out of power?

Is it the same forces that created Al Qaeda and commissioned Osama Bin Ladin to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan? Yet whoever these forces are and whatever their evil intentions are for Nigeria one thing is clear- despite all our complexities, self-hate, self-doubt and eccentricities God loves us dearly and we shall not go the way of Iraq, Syria or Libya.

After all this is the land of the Ameyo Adadevoh’s and other brave souls. This is the land where the watchers pray through the night and stand in the gap for their beloved nation and their compatriots. This is the land where, though we pretend to hate one another and we bicker morning, night and day, know the meaning of the word patriotism and whose people know how to worship and praise the one true God. 

The emissaries of the devil, no matter how powerful, how rich and how connected will never destroy us and neither shall the counsel of Satan prevail in our land. Each time they throw a bomb at us. like Ebola, it shall return to sender. Each time they refuse to sell us arms to enable us to defend our people the Lord shall raise others who shall do it in their stead.

The bottom line is as follows: you may hate us and seek to shame and humiliate us but God loves Nigeria and His purpose for our nation, whether you like it or not, shall surely come to pass.

Should blacks be grateful to whites for slavery? Seems the Bible may actually say so.....

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This guy absolutely does not hold back and it is definitely a video you need to watch, listen to and imbibe with an open mind.

Makes you pause and think for a minute, no question about it.

China overtakes US as world's largest economy

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The International Monetary Fund says China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest economy, according to a report.

The IMF estimates that the size of the US economy is $17.4 trillion, while the Chinese economy comes in at $17.6 trillion, Business Insider reports.

China's share of the global economy is 16.48 per cent, while the United States accounts for 16.28 per cent, the IMF said Tuesday as part of its outlook for the world economic growth.

These figures are adjusted for the relative costs of living in both countries, known as “purchasing power parity.”

As recently as 2005, the Chinese economy was less than half the size of the US economy.

Moreover, the IMF projects that China's economy will be 20 per cent bigger than that of the US by 2019.

China remains the biggest foreign holder of US government debt, holding an estimated $1.27 billion in US Treasury bonds, about 10.6% of the $12 trillion U.S. Treasury market.

The United States accuses China of lowering the price of its exports by manipulating its currency.

Earlier this year, China and Russia agreed to a measure to undercut the domination of the US dollar as the international reserve currency by paying each other in domestic currencies.

Source: PRESS TV 

Nigeria says cash for arms seized in South Africa was 'legitimate' business transaction

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ABUJA - Nigeria said on Wednesday that $15 million that had been seized by South African authorities in two separate incidents was money for 'legitimate' arms deals, and it urged its rival African power to release the funds.

South Africa froze $5.7 million worth of funds that it had been alerted to as suspicious by Standard Bank, money which was purportedly to buy arms including 50 M-75 cannons and 200,000 rounds of ammunition.

The move followed the seizure last month of $9.3 million in cash from a private jet carrying two Nigerians and an Israeli.

Nigeria, which says it needs the arms to fight an Islamist insurgency raging in the northeast, said both payments were intended for deals between private companies procuring weapons for Nigerian forces.

South Africa's National Prosecutor said in a statement on Tuesday that the latest seizure covered armaments considered 'controlled items', and the deal was being conducted without relevant permits.

The office of Nigeria's National Security Advisor (NSA) Sambo Dasuki, the country's highest security authority, rejected the charge, the latest in a long run of diplomatic spats between Africa's two biggest economies that has soured relations.

"We want to state clearly that a business transaction actually took place between a legitimate company in Nigeria and another legitimate one in South Africa through the bank," NSA spokesman Karounwi Adekunle said in a statement.

He said that the company had not been able to obtain the arms and so tried to refund the money.

South Africa has named the company as Cerberus Risk Solutions. It was not immediately possible to obtain comment from the firm.

The row comes as South Africa and Nigeria are also at loggerheads over the death of 115 South Africans last month in the collapse of a guesthouse attached to a Nigerian church owned by televangelist TB Joshua on Sept 12.

South Africa says Nigeria has refused access to the bodies of the deceased for DNA testing or burial ever since the tragedy, a charge the Nigerians have not responded to.

Source: Reuters

2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class S600 - Exterior and Interior Walkaround

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Impressive through and through. German technology, excellence and perfection at its absolute best.

Hopefully, it was not assembled in Alabama. Just kidding.....

Mercedes-Benz S 500 Intelligent Self Driving Car

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On first impression, a great concept brought to reality. But then again, in light of our human antecedents, the hurdles and challenges from several standpoints (legal, technointel continuum etc) remain.....