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Soldiers speak from battlefield - Basic Storylines

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How to Seduce Straight Guys File: Nigerian Soldiers …Explain why war on terror is unending …Accuse commanders of feeding fat on the death of others …Set agenda for new service chiefs By Emma Nnadozie, Crime Editor Soldiers are the ones who bear the brunt. They are in the frontlines, battling daily with Boko Haram insurgents. They face the bullets, get hit and die in the war front. They are not happy. Though they swore to protect, preserve and die for Nigeria, they are no longer happy carrying out their professional duties. In fact, the announcement of the appointment of new service chiefs elicited wild jubilation and cheers from our gallant soldiers in the war front. They could not hide their anger against the retired service chiefs. Saturday Vanguard had an exhaustive telephone conversation with a cross-section of Nigerian soldiers in the battlefield in Borno and other endangered Northern states. The interview which lasted for hours had an unprecedented outpour of a...

Ex-speaker, Dogara buries father-in-law in Bauchi - Basic Storylines

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How to Seduce Straight Guys Mr Yakubu Dogara, former speaker, House of Representatives, on Saturday, buried his father-in-law, Mr Stephen Gonto, in Mwari, Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Gonto, father of Dogara’s wife,  Gimbiya, was a retired Master Warrant Officer in the Nigerian Army, born on June 20,  1942, and died on Dec. 25. In his tribute at the burial service, Dogara described his father-in-law as a brave man with the face and heart of a soldier tempered by military training, adding that the late Gonto was a man who had sowed noble and fruitful seeds during his lifetime, praying fervently for his soul to rest in the bosom of the Lord. “I received the news of my father-in-law’s demise with sadness and pain. He fought wars, but displayed love and worked for peace as if everything depended on it. “Very uncompromising, but a forger of consensus on so many fronts, firm as a rock, but very loving and caring. ...

Fighting the COVID-19 infodemic - Basic Storylines

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How to Seduce Straight Guys THE National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, last week, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, and other prominent Nigerians will be among the first set to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on live television to allay peoples’ fears and misconceptions about the vaccine. It is no doubt in emulation of the United States President-elect Joe Biden, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other heads of state who had similarly received the COVID-19 vaccines on live television to assure their citizens that the vaccines are safe. Earlier, the NPHCDA had also disclosed that Nigeria hopes to get 42 million doses of the vaccines to cover one-fifth of its population through the global COVAX scheme. The NPHCDA said the initial vaccines would come as part of Nigeria’s plan to inoculate 40 per cent of the population this year and another 30 per ce...

WHO says overcoming leprosy is more than early diagnosis, prompt treatment - Basic Storylines

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How to Seduce Straight Guys Mr Yohei Sasakawa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, says overcoming leprosy involves more than early diagnosis and prompt treatment. Sasakawa stated this in his message to mark the World Leprosy Day posted on the WHO website. The World Leprosy Day is observed internationally every year on the last Sunday of each January to increase the public awareness of Leprosy or Hansen’s Disease. Sasakawa said overcoming leprosy also required changing mindsets so that the disease would no longer be a source of shame or prejudice. “We must remove all barriers in the way of those seeking medical care. READ ALSO:  APC Registration: Buhari revalidates membership in Daura “We must eliminate the obstacles that prevent affected individuals and their families from living in dignity and enjoying all their basic human rights as full members of society. “I often talk about leprosy in terms of a motorcycle. The front-whee...

Gunmen kidnap 21 travellers along Kaduna-Kachia Road - Basic Storylines

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How to Seduce Straight Guys …councillor escapes, ran through the bush By Ibrahim HassanWuyo A councillor from Southern Kaduna and few others have escaped and ran through the bush when gunmen abducted about 21 people along the Kaduna – Kachia road late Friday. Journalists were told that not fewer than 21 persons were kidnapped when the gunmen in Army uniform blocked the road at Idom on the  Kaduna –  Kschia road. Also read: We saw many dead bodies However, details are yet to be released by the authorities. “It was in the late hour of Friday, the armed men who came in large number dressed in military uniform and abducted 21 persons along Kaduna- Kachia road at Idon village of kajuru local government area of Kaduna State,” a local said. “The councillor who was  among the two persons that escaped from the kidnappers in the bush ran through the bush and they later found themselves at Mararraban Kajuru, where they were assisted by the locals.” The councillor who narr...

Let’s stop ‘smiling & dancing’ military operations - Basic Storylines

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How to Seduce Straight Guys By Tonnie Iredia Loud calls in the last year for a change of military service chiefs in Nigeria appear to have ended with the announcement, a few days ago, of a new team. An aggregation of the numerous reactions to the new team to be led by war veteran, Lucky Irabor shows that the idea of bringing the team on board at this point in time is propitious and well received. However, a few people including this writer are still apprehensive of the efficacy of Nigeria’s security architecture.  To start with, our leaders erroneously imagine that national security begins and ends with defence and military might. While not doubting the reality of civil strife as a daily feature of Nigeria’s heterogeneous and disparate communities, national security must be better understood to include other crucial areas such as job security and indeed food security; otherwise, a national security policy would be of no use to the unemployed, hungry and poor citizens that consti...

Women know all men are obsessed with size - Basic Storylines

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How to Seduce Straight Guys By Bunmi Sofola “Years ago”, recalled Lizzy, a fifty-something IT expert, “when our house was always full of small children, I staggered downstairs with a few of fellow mothers after a chaotic session with some of the children in the bathroom, all wanting to be refreshed at my toddlers birthdays. We found the visiting Dads were pouring well-earned drinks. We mothers reported that just before we finished cleaning the children, all the three and four-year-old boys had been snapping at their pants’ elastic and comparing the size of their willies. The mothers all laughed. So did the fathers, for a brief moment, but then almost in chorus, they asked: `Um … and whose was the …?’ “Civilised, cultured, happily married men, not porn-hound among them, but they couldn’t help it. Willie – worship, willy-pride is hard-wired deep in the male brain. However, much they denied it, men do seem to care”. Re-acting to an early report in the column about King’s College L...