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Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Gtuns(m): 5:41pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
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Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Sammy07: 5:42pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
foleskay: Lol, Wetin you talk? Apart from the federal road to Ogbomosho and some areas along government house and to shop rite, university road. Where else again? Kwara state isn't planned thanks to the Sarakis families. 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Cali4by4: 5:42pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
Some people will find it difficult to relate the name to specific town....future confusion well setup |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Wickedfact: 5:43pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
millionboi2: You said they stole, I give you 2 examples of those who didn't hold federal offices. Are you making an ignorant assumption that all those who held federal offices stole? 3 Likes |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by olasaad(f): 5:44pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
Wickedfact: Do you know that Ajaokuta is one of the most powerful rail station in the country |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Wickedfact: 5:46pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
olasaad: That doesn't relate to the conversation in any way. Powerful as in how? Profitability, traffic or presence? I'm sure if Saraki is made an ambassador today, you would be happy. But the best way to kill a politician is to make him an ambassador. Only politicians understand this. 3 Likes |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Bluffly: 5:46pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
They should quit all these sychophant acts |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by AK481(m): 5:46pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
none is located in alaigbo. |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Elsiedaniels(f): 5:47pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
Okay |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by joefelin2345: 5:50pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
Sammy07:You are a complete bastard by calling Akintola a traitor? Who did he betray? You are bereft of Nigerian history. Lies repeated several times most especially to ignoramus like you could could assume the guise of truth. At any rate you can go & hug d transformer on your street if it so pained you. |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Bluffly: 5:50pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
Officialgarri:Hmm, what a delusional perspective |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by millionboi2: 5:50pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
Wickedfact:you are a thieve then datz y u are pretending not to know. 1 Like |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Sammy07: 5:51pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
AK481: Don't worry, by the time Lagos to Calabar rail is completed, it'll be named after Azikwe |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Sammy07: 5:52pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
joefelin2345: Ode, you should go and re read history. Check my post at the 2nd page or 3rd page. It has been explained. Here is the link. http://community.vanguardngr.com/forum/topics/the-crisis-that-truncated-the-first-republic 3 Likes |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by darfay: 5:53pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
Naming something in urhobo land after an itsekiri man ie the ujewe station. Hahaha itsekiri go soon claim ujewe now. Just watch and see 1 Like |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Amudeneogu: 5:54pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
We in the south-east have we sen ourselves, 1. only chief Alex Ekwueme's name was mentioned 2. out of all th stations none from the south-east that means no functional railway station from the south-east. it is a pity. |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by naptu2: 5:54pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
AK481: Amudeneogu: These are on the Western (Lagos to Kano) and Central (Warri to Abuja) lines. None of the stations can be in Igbo Land. The lines that have stations in Igbo Land are the Eastern (Port Harcourt to Maiduguri) and Southern (Lagos to Calabar) lines. 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by leykelvin: 5:56pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
The Train-Stations should have been named after the Cities and Towns hosting them and not after these guys. Some of these guys were/are corrupt Leaders. Their names continue to remind us of those who contributed to the backwardness of our great country With this honour you send the wrong signal that you can be corrupt, be a bad leader and at the end a sitting President will still honour you. With all due Respect to some those honured, i think it makes better sense and easier to say Ibadan Train Station instead of Obafemi Awolowo Station or Olodo station instead of Aremo Segun Osoba. In the western world you hear New York central station, Berlin central station, Amsterdam central Station etc. And these are even countries where you have better politicians who care for their People. All the same i salute Buharis Intention 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by fortune1968: 5:56pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
Most of the names will be deleted when our Rawlings come . We pray . |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by emperor863(m): 5:59pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
ThatFairGuy1: HistoryVille NWAFOR ORIZU: CROOK, CONVICT TURNED SENATE PRESIDENT Dr. Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor Orizu (1920-1999) being a crook should never have held any political office had Nigeria been a proper country. In 1946, Orizu presided over a new form of heartless fraud. Families and whole villages in the East sold their possessions to send a single student from their village to university because like Awolowo, they were passionate about the benefit of a good education. Orizu, a PhD holder, formed an agency, American Council on African Education (ACAE) to process these village students' admission into American universities. He collected the maintenance funds from their parents and other sponsors and diverted them partly or totally to other personal and business schemes. In 1947, two prominent African-America ns Alain Locke and George Schulyer resigned over Orizu’s conduct of affairs. Horace Mann Bond, the African-American president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania who provided Orizu’s agency with many tuition-free scholarships complained regularly and bitterly about Orizu’s failure to financially support the students whom Orizu had placed in his school. The 32-year-old Orizu was found out and on the 2nd of February 1953, he was arrested. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Mbonu Ojike, and Kola Balogun went to bail him out. On 9th February, his brother Joseph Onyekusi Orizu was arrested in Gusau and taken to Port Harcourt. On 12th February both brothers were charged in a statement that read: “That you between May 1, 1946, and December 31, 1951, at Port Harcourt, in the Port Harcourt Magisterial District, conspired together with other persons unknown to defraud such person as might be induced to deposit money with you as officers and agents of a body known as the American Council on African Education Incorporated, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under the Criminal code.” When their lawyer told the court that Orizu was an honourable man, a PhD holder, a royal Prince in Nnewi, a member of the regional legislature, and also Azikiwe’s nominee for Minister of Local Government, Magistrate Dickson retorted: ''This court is not a department under the Government and it is not subject to any political party.” Orizu was later jailed for 7 years. On Tuesday 22nd September 1953, he arrived at the Lagos Prison by train under escort to serve his term. At the House of Commons debate of April 29, 1953, James Johnson the MP for Kingston upon Hull West berated Oliver Lyttelton, the Secretary of Colonies for taking so long to arrest the Orizu brothers: “Is not it somewhat disgraceful that it has taken so long to investigate this case of defrauding parents and students? Hence allowing him to cause untold hardship to his own people?'' The logic behind the rule was that the government was a sacred job; if crooks were allowed to determine the destiny of the people, the people would suffer indefinitely. Mbonu Ojike, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ozumba Mbadiwe started to entrench the false narrative that Orizu was convicted by the British colonial government not for embezzlement but as a revenge for his fiery anti-colonial speech given at the 1947 Enugu Coal riots rally. Never mind that more important figures such as H.O. Davies also gave fiery speeches at the rally too but were not fraudsters hence not fated for conviction by the colonial government. But in the case of Orizu, colonialism became the excuse for a crook to be turned into a national hero. Azikiwe made Orizu whole by nominating him unopposed to represent Nnewi in the Federal elections of 1959 that ushered in self-rule. The existence of colonialism provided Nigeria’s moral system the perfect excuse to develop and strengthen the disdain for the objective perception of value on which any civilised society must rest. When colonialism expired in 1960, the disdain remained alive and thriving through the force of habit. In 1961 for instance, Dr. Okejukwu Ikejiani the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was caught lying about a certificate he never had. A visiting scholar from the University of Toronto who happened to be from the same department which allegedly awarded Ikejiani’s certificate was the first to point out that Ikejiani never had that esteemed Doctor of Science degree. Ibadan erupted and there were calls for Ikejiani to resign and be prosecuted. To Azikiwe who was the Head of State, the visitor to the university and in charge of such appointments, Ikejiani was being “persecuted” because he, Azikiwe, had dared to appoint another Igbo after Francis Ibiam as the Pro-chancellor and head of the governing council of a flagship Federal University in a non-Igbo region in particular when the Vice-Chancellor was already an Igbo. Before departing Toronto University where he rightly earned his undergraduate medical degree, Ikejiani seduced and frequently unhooked the lovely secretary at the Vice-Chancellor’s office until she embossed a Doctor of Science certificate in his name complete with authentic signatures but with no education behind it. After the Toronto University investigation into the matter, the secretary realised her wrongdoing and quietly accepted her dismissal. But that was Canada. In Nigeria, one of the criteria of eligibility for being considered a national hero was to be a bonafide crook. When Ikejiani was forced to finally resign, being a medical doctor, Azikiwe made him whole like Orizu by appointing him to the State House as one of his personal physicians. He was not done: Azikiwe then reappointed him again to his former unfilled post less than two years later. He still was not done: In 1964, Azikiwe decorated him with the national honour – Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) – pun unintended – ‘for his service to the nation.’ # HistoryVille Source: The News Magazine, June 19, 2016. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Wickedfact: 6:04pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
millionboi2: I didnt insult you. If you ever make the mistake of insulting me again, I promise to place curses on your head backed by traditional means. You are a young boy, don't use your own hands to wreck your life and put your parents in sorrow. 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by GoldHorse(m): 6:04pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
Some of these people already have tons of places named after them. Let's look for new ordinary people that have done good deeds or inspire others for once. It must all the time not be about politicians and rulers. 1 Like |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Sammy07: 6:06pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
naptu2: Hmm! Understood. |
Re: Buhari Names Train Stations After Prominent Nigerians. See Full List. by Akile1: 6:10pm On Jul 27, 2020 |
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