Tuesday, 10 March 2015

I wasn't trying to seduce president Jonathan

Many entertainers have been having fun with President Goodluck Jonathan in recent times.The president, who was in Lagos last week, had some interesting moments with some of the celebrities.Singer, Seyi Shay was among the entertainers and the pretty diva ‘broke’ the Internet with the dress she wore to meet the president at the event.
The picture where the singer, wearing an incredibly short dress, while sitting beside the president, went viral and so many fans and foes have expressed their feelings concerning her outfit.
Comments

Muli Amidu: There is a way to appear before the king and there are other ways not to appear before him. There is apparel that is fit for a meeting with a king and others that are impugning and insulting. One is, however, not sure, if the President considered Shay’s dress insulting as some people did.
Somebody:Recently, Obama hosted some basketball players. The players wore suit and tie except one who did not wear tie. The White House referred to the dressing as “rude and improper.”

Prof:One thing I consider terrible about Nigerians is their holier-than-thou attitude. Many of them pretend to be angels in the public whereas they are indecent people in the private. Some marry underage girls while they preach indecency in the public. Some people who condemn Shay may have been doing things that are more terrible in the private.
Concerned:There is a marked difference between what happens behind closed doors and what happens in the open.   Where you put the two together, it becomes diversionary.
Pheliciti:The issue is would the president have tolerated her daughter if she dressed as Shay did. Should he, as a Christian have corrected her?

Timothy: As a leader, there are things you say or do to earn the respect of your followers. If he advised her against such a dressing, it would have gone a long way to show that he is a man of high moral standards. But accepting her as one of those things says a lot about the decadence of our values.

Begy Ozaluoku:Go to all the churches in the country and see nudity in display. First, we should correct ourselves before going out to lecture others on morality.

Point Blank:But you should also remember that your liberty and freedom terminates where another person’s begins. If you are free to dress half-nude, others have right to detest it.

Truthhurtsalot62:This is why we speak about the need for a change. It is high time our women learnt that they do not have to dress scantily in the name of being famous.

Bimbo:I wonder when men will get off their moral high horse and leave women to lead their lives. Nigerian men chase anything in skirts and lack respect for their wives. It is only when women are concerned that everybody starts screaming a prophet. I am an active pro-Buhari; I have even donated twice to his campaign. I want change as badly as well. But change has nothing to do with Shay’s skirt. When men misbehave, the heaven does not fall. But when it involves a woman, it looks like the end of the world.

Keu4Success:Look at the little girl saying she only wore that incredibly short dress for performance. Does her African culture not teach her how to present herself in the public and how to honour people whom honour is due? Can she wear the same dress to sit down with her dad?

Premier solar plane shoots to the sky and fly for hours

A Swiss solar-powered plane has taken off from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates marking the start of the first attempt to fly around the world without a dropof fuel,Al Jazeerareports.The Solar Impulse 2, piloted by Andre Borschberg of Switzerland, took off at 7.12am local time (0412 GMT) on Monday from the UAE’s Al-Bateen airport and headed to Muscat, the capital of Oman, where it is expected to land later after the first leg of the journey.The developers said the aim was to create awareness about replacing “old polluting technologies with clean and efficient technologies”.Andre Borschberg, Solar Impulse co-founder, was at the controls of the single-seater when it took off from the Al Bateen airport in the UAE on Monday morning.The take-off, which was originally scheduled for Saturday but delayed due to high winds, capped 13 years of research and testing by Borschberg and fellow Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard.The pilot would take turns to fly the plane around the world and switch seats during stopovers.The plane at the Abu Dhabi’s airport… on Monday. Photo: AFPTwo hours and 15 minutes into the flight, Borschberg was 13 per cent of theway to Muscat and attempting to give media interviews before calling his wife, according to a website monitoring his progress.Shortly before take-off, Borschberg, 63, said on Twitter that the “challenge to come is real for me and the airplane”.“This project is a human project, it is a human challenge,” Borschberg said on Sunday.The wingspan of the one-seater plane, known as the Si2, is slightly bigger than that of a jumbo jet, but its weight is around that of a family car.From Muscat, it will make 12 stops on an epic journey spread over five months, with a total flight time ofaround 25 days.It will cross the Arabian Sea to India before heading on to Myanmar, China, Hawaii and New York.Landings are also earmarked for the midwestern US and either southern Europe or North Africa, depending on weather conditions.The longest single leg will see a lone pilot fly non-stop for five days across the Pacific Ocean between Nanjing, China and Hawaii, a distance of 8,500km.Borschberg and Piccard will alternate stints flying the plane, which can hold only one person, with the aircraft able to fly on autopilot during rest breaks.The pilots have undergone intensive training in preparation for the trip, including in yoga and self-hypnosis, allowing them to sleep for periods as short as 20 minutes but awaken feeling refreshed.All this will happen without burning a drop of fuel.The pilots will be linked to a control centre in Monaco where 65 weathermen, air traffic controllers and engineers will be stationed. A team of 65 support staff will travel with the two pilots.Should a problem occur while sleeping, the ground staff can wake up the pilot.“We want to share our vision of a clean future,” Piccard, 57, who is chairman of Solar Impulse, said of the mission.“Climate change is a fantastic opportunity to bring in the market new green technologies that save energy, save natural resources of our planet, make profit, create jobs, and sustain growth.”The pilots’ idea was ridiculed by the aviation industry when it was first unveiled.But Piccard, who hails from a family of scientist-adventurers and who in 1999 became the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon, clung to his belief that clean technology and renewable energy “can achieve the impossible”.The plane is powered by more than 17,000 solar cells built into wings that, at 236ft, are longer than a jumbo and approaching that of an Airbus A380 superjumbo.Thanks to an innovative design, the lightweight carbon fibre aircraft weighs only 2.3 tonnes, about the same as a family 4×4 and less than one percent of the weight of the A380.The Si2 is the first solar-powered aircraft able to stay aloft for several days and nights.