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Screen grab from this conversation hit social media recently. Not sure of its authenticity but its worth reading. 

Yous have spoken well Gen Buhari

It appears there is never a bad time to have sex, be it in the morning, afternoon or night, and being one of the most pleasurable obligations in marriage, couples have had sex at such times some people may consider ‘ungodly.’ Inasmuch as sex has no definite time or venue before it can be enjoyed, findings by some scientists have shown that men want it in the morning, while women want it at night. The question then is, why is it that men want sex and are good to go first thing in the morning while women often want to get in the mood late in the evening? In justifying their findings, the scientists attributed men’s early morning desire to two things – hormones and because sex could make a day better. The result of the study was published in mirror.co.uk. It is no news that men usually wake in the morning with an erection, feeling amorous, which is occasioned by the testosterone hormone in their body, and since a hard-on is also instrumental to sex, that ple...

Despite the recent reduction in the pump price of petrol from N97 to N87 per litre, the Federal Government has said it will still pay subsidy on the product for the next 40 days. The government explained that fuel consumed in Nigeria was “heavily subsidised” before the global crunch in crude oil prices, adding that it would take some time before subsidy on the product would stop. The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, while explaining why the pump price of fuel in Nigeria did not reduce as soon as global crude oil prices plummeted, said Nigeria was importing against the global import prices for crude. She spoke during a Raypower radio programme monitored by our correspondent in Abuja. Speaking also on the price of diesel, the minister said the product’s price was been decided by market forces as diesel was not regulated by the Federal Government. “Bear in mind that we will still be covering subsidy cost for at least 40 days ...

Some people have accused me of not liking politicians, so let me set the record straight. I don’t! They have done more harm to our nation than the military (their first cousins). At no period in our nationhood has the opportunity for reversing the dehumanising nature of a politically corrupt society like ours been greater. Every Nigerian who seeks freedom should rethink all temptations to rush to the polling station on February 14 in an attempt to further entrench corruption with a transfusion of his or her energies. Let us instead participate in a peaceful revolution to rescue this country from disintegration and death. It is better for any society that has been shredded by corruption to undergo a few headaches, fevers, and stomach upsets in the interim. It is better to rid Nigeria of her sickness once and for all than continue our habit of suppressing the symptoms which is exactly what we’ll be doing voting for the same crop of corrupt politicians in the forthcoming el...

President Goodluck Jonathan Friday said he had fulfilled the promises he made to Nigerians during his 2011 campaign. He said this while inaugurating a five-seater air-conditioned passenger inter-city rail transport system that will link Makurdi, Benue State with Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. Jonathan, who was represented by Vice-President Namadi Sambo, said the country had witnessed transformation, especially in the transport sector during his administration. He said, “President Jonathan has ensured the fulfilment of the promises he made to Nigerians by transforming the country, especially the transport sector as a critical infrastructure. “Today’s event is a commitment of our unflinching services. This transformation is in three phases: System transition, system modernisation and system stabilisation”. Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State applauded the President for reviving the “moribund” railway system which he said had been abandoned for the past...

An unidentified woman and her son lost their lives in the early hours of Friday when a truck crashed into three commercial buses at the Ketu end of the popular Ikorodu Road in Lagos. According to eyewitnesses, who spoke with our correspondent shortly after the incident, the driver of the truck carrying two fully loaded containers and marked Lagos SMK98XF lost control of the vehicle before ramming into the buses which were picking passengers on the road. Two of the buses were marked Lagos SMK-406XF and Lagos KH318-KRD. The third which why a TATA luxury bus had been moved away from the scene when our correspondent arrived. One of the containers fell on the victims while the other destroyed the buses completely, dragging them more than 10 meters from the point of first contact. Shoes, clothes and other items belonging to victims littered the scene of the sad event. An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, who was among several uniformed personnel ...