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Deliverance: Jim Iyke replies critics
I believe this SCOAN deliverance worked for Jim. He has really been delivered. Lol. Normally, he would have gone off on those who criticized him...but his response is so mature. Well done, Mr Iykehukwu. :-)
Celebrate Nigeria’s Independence with Close Up (Concerts moved to 5th October) dont miss it!!!
The Close Up Loves Naija Concerts featuring MI, Olamide, Burna Boy, Chidinma, Phyno and DJ Jimmy Jatt, at Silverbird Galleria in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja now comes up on Saturday, 5thOctober, 2013. For more information log on to www.facebook.com/closeupng
Billionaire rocketeers duke it out for shuttle launch pad.
Four decades ago, NASA's Launch Complex 39A was at the center of the Cold War race to the moon.
Now the mothballed launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which dispatched Neil Armstrong and his crew on their historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969, is the focus of a battle of another sort, between two billionaire techies seeking to dominate a new era of private space flight.
NASA had hoped to turn over maintenance of the pad to a private company by October 1, saving itself $100,000 a month in maintenance costs, according to NASA spokeswoman Tracy Young.
Instead, fierce competition for control of the pad by digital entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos has led to a government probe and congressional lobbying, delaying NASA's choice of a partner.
Musk's 11-year-old Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX, already has two U.S. launch sites for its Falcon rockets at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and California's Vandenberg Air Force bases.
Obama's Asia trip plans cut short as shutdown continues
President Barack Obama on Wednesday scrapped part of a long-planned trip to Asia and left the remainder of the trip in doubt as a U.S. government shutdown went into a second day with no end in sight to the funding battle in Congress that triggered it.
Obama scuttled two stops on a planned four-country tour and left visits to two other countries up in the air, according to White House statements.
The president told his counterparts in Malaysia and the Philippines he would not be able to meet them as planned and a White House official said the president is weighing whether to attend diplomatic summits in Indonesia and Brunei.
"We will continue to evaluate those trips based on how events develop throughout the course of the week," National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.
Obama was originally due to leave the United States on Saturday and return a week later.
Not only must the president deal with the budget impasse and its effects, but he faces an even bigger crunch in Congress, which will put the United States at risk of defaulting on its debts if it does not raise the limit on U.S. public debt. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said the United States will exhaust its borrowing authority no later than October 17.
The fight between Obama's Democrats and the Republicans over the government's borrowing power is rapidly merging with the standoff over everyday funding, which has forced the first government shutdown in 17 years and sent hundreds of thousands of federal employees on unpaid leave.
The White House announcements about the Asia trip followed a fruitless day on Capitol Hill, with congressional Democrats and Republicans coming no closer to resolving their differences.
Obama accused Republicans of taking the government hostage to sabotage his signature healthcare law, the most ambitious U.S. social program in five decades, passed three years ago.
Republicans in the House of Representatives view the Affordable Care Act as a dangerous extension of government power, and have coupled their efforts to undermine it with continued efforts to block government funding. The Democratic-controlled Senate has repeatedly rejected those efforts.
Ukraine police fire tear gas to disperse protest in Kiev
Ukrainian police fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse protesters trying to enter the city council building in the capital Kiev, police and opposition activists said.
No casualties were reported in the incident, which occurred when demonstrators began dismantling metal crowd barriers and trying to grab officers' helmets outside the building on Kiev's broad main boulevard.
Thousands of opposition protesters had gathered to rally against what they say is an illegitimate council session.
They say the mandate of the legislature, which is dominated by allies of President Viktor Yanukovich, ended in June and that a new election must be held.
Control of the council in Kiev, a city of 3 million, could give the government or its opponents an advantage in Ukraine's next presidential election in 2015, political analysts say.
The opposition said five protesters were detained in Wednesday's protest. Police did not give a figure but said those who were detained would be charged with hooliganism.
Why President Obama Must Avoid 'Obamolly' In Syria
By USAF Col. (Ret) John A. Warden III and Patrick J. McCloskey
We might have a new word for folly if President Barack Obama gets Congressional approval and authorizes military strikes against Syria. Tactically, cruise missiles will do their job by blowing stuff up, but these raids will probably harm innocent civilians—maybe killing more than in the chemical attacks—and strategically, they might precipitate disastrous consequences across the region. Future generations might warn against committing an “Obamolly.”
iPhone 5S To Ring In The New With Expected Fingerprint Sensing Home Button
Tuesday will tell, but multiple rumors are pointing to a subtle design distinction for the forthcoming iPhone 5S. Along with new Gold and Graphite colors, the home button is expected have a new look signifying the inclusion of a fingerprint scanner within.
FOX News anchor (and now app developer) Clayton Morris first claimed, in an interview last month, that “sources” told him that the home button will “have a silver ring around it.” Speculation was raised by the inclusion in the invitation for Tuesday’s announcement of three silver-bordered rings along with the brightly-colored circles reminiscent of the iOS 7′s new palette. (I have inserted iPhone 5 home buttons into those rings in the spoof on Apple ‘s invitation above.) The features is also shown on questionable “leaked” photos of 5S packaging, but these could have been generated in response to Clayton as opposed to anything Apple is actually doing.
INSULT OF LIFE! Mugabe To Obama: ''Were You Born Out Of Homoséxuality?"
If you don't know Mugabe is Zimbabwean President
Read more below after cut
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe railed against President Obama during a recent campaign rally, arguing that the U.S. president wanted to force Africa to "embrace homoséxuality."
The African leader often criticizes homoséxuality or other perceived enemies to gin up populist support, but the turn against Obama included a new comment.
"Then we have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don’t embrace homoséxuality,"
Mugabe said. "We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the
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