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The thread title should have read "Jonathan moves to rescue PDP South-West from Political Oblivion". The PDP chieftains seem to be going seriously broke in that Yoruba region...Odikwa seriously.

Well, I'm not surprised at all...Nigeria has a lot of work to do.

BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI

MOTORISTS along Ikoyi, Lekki-Epe axis will soon heave a sigh of relief as the first ever cable styled bridge of its kind in the sub Saharan West Africa region – Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, has reached 95 percent stage of completion.

The link bridge project is sponsored by Governor Babatunde Fashola administration in Lagos State and being constructed by the construction giant, Julius Berger Plc.

he project was conceived in 2008, as solution to the perennial bottleneck on the Lekki- Epe road being serviced by only one access road.

Therefore, people of the highbrow choice area and the adjoining Victoria Island will soon witness a tremendous and pleasurable driving experience upon completion of the link bridge which will cause a relief from the daily traffic challenges the residents face trying to connect either Ikoyi or Lekki through Falomo Bridge, Alfred Rewane Road or Lekki-Epe Road.

Femi Hamzat, Lagos State commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, described it as historic, noting: “No doubt it is a testament to the sagacity of an administration determined to build tomorrow’s infrastructure today. It is the hallmark of a commitment to the welfare and socio-economic wellbeing of its people.”

When Vanguard Newspaper visited the site recently, it was gathered that the level of work had reached over 95 percent and according to Hamzat the target is to commission it before the end of this year, specifically first week in November.

The aesthetic bridge is a standard megacity compliant facility. It is to serve as a strategic bypass along the Falomo Bridge and Alfred Rewane, Independence Bridge and Ahmadu Bello Way.

Designed as dual carriageway, the bridge directly connects Lekki Phase I Estate with Alexander in Ikoyi. It is envisaged that on completion it would improve the living standard of the people and enhance social interaction, as it represents a significant content in the state’s tourism portfolio.

“The infrastructures provided must not only reflect present realities but also envisage future growth trends,” Hamzat stated, adding that it will also reduce travel time, save man-hour loss by motorists.

Moreover, the link bridge is expected to reduce the traffic on Lekki-Epe Toll Gates, as motorists who do not have any business along the axis would have the option of going through the link bridge, either from Ikoyi end to the other or Lekki end to the other, thereby, eliminating the present traffic rush being experienced on daily basis on Lekii Epe Expressway.

Technical details of the bridge obtained from the state Ministry Works and Infrastructure shows as follows: total length of bridge – 1.358km comprising of 722m approach and main bridge 466m; length of cable- 170m (suspended section). Eight of pylon: 87m from water level; navigational requirement clearance average of 9m above high water level.

Width is 16m across (8m on both sides); walkway – 4m across (2m on both sides); road works- Ikoyi end – 338. 7m while Lekki end is 311.5m.

OTHER LINK BRIDGES IN FOCUS

According to reliable sources, the state is planning another link bridge from Ojodu-Berger to Ikorodu to Isawo with a stop at Ikorodu. “But the construction will be tough, because the alignment is built up and the compensation will be high. So we are looking at various options,” the source said.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/ikoyi-lekki-link-bridge-ready-soon/

This leopard is a real predator...imagine how closely it studied the big python before making its deadly move. FRONT PAGE PLSSS!

karl max: U need to watch CNN now, most Arab and northan Africa nations are damostrating now setting cars and buildings on fire.
SUDAN- German and American embassies on fire
LEBANON- KFC and other American companies on fire. 20 dead and over 30 injured.
IRAQ- police having tough times with protesters
YEMEN- police using tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters
EGYPT- hundreds wounded as protest continues
LIBYA- more buildings on fire
PAKISTAN- violent on streets burning American flags
TUNISIA- US embassy breached. Building on fire

Ishmael and his descendants in action...May God save us.

Great news....now I can do my transactions without error messages again.

Ujujoan: 2M large cash?

You probably haven't worked with any government.

Well, N2 million is still a large cash no matter what. Adequate security measures should have been put in place to prevent the robbery.

Very weird crime....

Nyarluo: Hello,

I am a Kenyan from the Luo tribe. Your thread is very fascinating. I am a junkie of all things cultural and love to learn all I can about different cultures. I came across something today and wanted to ask my Nigerian brothers what your opinion is:



DAVID O'GRADY
Is there an anthropological connection between the Luo of Kenya and the Igbo of Nigeria?
These are two major ethnic groups living thousands of miles apart.But surprising similarities exist in their norms,beliefs,values,names of people and places.Both Luo and Igbo are the first to admit the similarities but no one seems to have an explanation.Names such as Okoye,Akomo,Gombe,(Luo,Igbo)Okonkwo(Igbo… Okongo(Luo) mean the same thing in both languages.Akomo means born during a harvest.
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an interesting observation is that Luo believed in a powerful sun god known as chieng' who was the source of all laws known as chik.compare this with the igbo fetish god chi.The Luo trace their ancestry to ancient egypt where they lived centuries ago before migrating southwards to sudan and east africa.interestingly,local folklorist claim 'some of their brothers migrated westwards'.No one knows what became of the group that migrated westwards."
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Interesting research! Here was I thinking that the Luos and Yorubas are much more related. If indeed the Igbos have a much closer relationship to the Luos, then the Luos are the missing link to unravelling the relationship between Igbos and Yorubas.

Nyarluo: Hello,

I am a Kenyan from the Luo tribe. Your thread is very fascinating. I am a junkie of all things cultural and love to learn all I can about different cultures. I came across something today and wanted to ask my Nigerian brothers what your opinion is:



DAVID O'GRADY
Is there an anthropological connection between the Luo of Kenya and the Igbo of Nigeria?
These are two major ethnic groups living thousands of miles apart.But surprising similarities exist in their norms,beliefs,values,names of people and places.Both Luo and Igbo are the first to admit the similarities but no one seems to have an explanation.Names such as Okoye,Akomo,Gombe,(Luo,Igbo)Okonkwo(Igbo… Okongo(Luo) mean the same thing in both languages.Akomo means born during a harvest.
10 months ago Report Abuse
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an interesting observation is that Luo believed in a powerful sun god known as chieng' who was the source of all laws known as chik.compare this with the igbo fetish god chi.The Luo trace their ancestry to ancient egypt where they lived centuries ago before migrating southwards to sudan and east africa.interestingly,local folklorist claim 'some of their brothers migrated westwards'.No one knows what became of the group that migrated westwards."
10 months ago

Interesting research! Here was I thinking that the Luos and Yorubas are much more related. If indeed the Igbos have a much closer relationship to the Luos, then the Luos are the missing link to unravelling the relationship between Igbos and Yorubas.

...and more pictures

More Pictures...

Nairalanders, I have decided to perform my responsibility as a citizen by presenting you pictures from the ongoing expansion and reconstruction of Ago-Palace Way, Okota undertaken by Lagos State Government. The project is being undertaken by CCECC and I believe over a year old by now (I'm not sure).

This road is an alternate (and parallel) route for motorists wishing to avoid the traffic nightmares of Oshodi-Apapa expressway presently under snail reconstruction by the FG. It is also beneficial for residents around Isolo, Okota, Ejigbo, Ikotun and Jakande Estate especially those working on the Island. When completed, it will be possible for inbound traffic from as far as FESTAC Town, Amuwo-Odofin, Satellite Town and Mile Two to arrive Yaba Area in about 30 minutes. This is possible because of the recently completed Cele-Itire Link bridge by LASG (The second of its kind since the 80's).

From my estimate, I could say the work is slightly above 50% between Ago junction and Century Bus-stop (street lighting included). But, it appears CCECC is trying to meet the deadline as they are rapidly completing the road with large number of workers deployed to the site.

Thanks!

Interesting topic!

Hmmm, a very difficult choice to make. I think I'll go with Bruce Wayne (Batman). The guy is a silent billionaire o. Check out his crazy house and gadgets.

This professor dude is so funny. Does He even know that Obasanjo under-developed his own state, Ogun State? Yeye man!

Germannig: If you wish, do not rest. Ya business. What am saying is that if it were in those ''O'' states that Orji Kalu (Abia ex-Gov) and Orji (Abia current Gov) feuded the way they did, there would have been deaths recorded. The feud between Ohakim and Okorocha was also very intense as was the one between Obi and Uba. Yet no deaths were reported.

I am only trying to help you because I suspect this thread might not end well. I am from one of the states around "O" and I don't want your thread to go tribal...

Okay, we have heard!!! Can we rest now?

I think this news is a little stale. As at July 2011, Nigeria was not among the list of commonwealth countries requiring free visa entry to Zambia. I remember paying about US$75 visa fee to attend a conference there. A lot of SADC countries are placing stringent entry conditions for Nigerians visiting their countries. This is the tip of the iceberg. Until we change our attitude, we will be spited everywhere in the world.

I don miss gbege o. Why the moderator come hide all the posts?

Why do some people like derailing threads on NL? It is evident that this write-up has been conclusively summarised in the last two paragraphs.

Brixtonyute: In 1957, the North threatened to secede if independence was granted to Nigeria because they were not ready. Zik, was supposed to have reached an understanding with Awo to let the North go. But to Awo’s consternation, Zik formed an alliance with the North which succeeded in delaying independence and allowed the North to get ready.

TRUE OR FALSE?

Brixtonyute: In 1966, a group of young Igbo officers planned a coup that killed only non-Igbo politicians. Included among the politicians was Ahmadu Bello who was a god-like figure to the Northerners. Before you could say Jihad, all the Sabongaris were on fire and the pogrom that would lead to the civil war has started..
Instead of trying to seek immediate political solution to the crisis, the Igbos declared Biafra. They war lasted for 30 months. The Igbos lost everything. The Hausa-Fulani oligarchy took this defeat of Biafra as the conquest of the South. Since then, they have transformed the privilege of leadership into that of a birthright and they have used it not only to stunt the growth of the South but also to subject their people to a state of perpetual servitude and feudalistic iniquities.

TRUE OR FALSE?

If your answer is true, then it follows the heart of this write-up. However, if you think it is false, please back it up with facts and figures of the period mentioned, not with an over-flogged write-up of Mallam Sanusi which is not representative of the 1957 and 1966 era as presented above. Shikena!!!

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It appears you have a problem of server synchronization. Is this the first time you are doing this?

Mine are few...

ikeyman00: ^^^^ rubbish and thats the truth!!

nothing change whatsoever

una offemmanu are very tribal and thats the way it is

whether u agree or not;

Mr Ikeyman00, I can see you are a die-hard and unrepentant tribalist like many of your contemporaries on this forum. I hope it makes you feel better when you sleep and wake up daily. Cheers, man. By the way, I heard that being a good tribalist gives one longevity and good health. Congrats!!!

samkoro: About the tout thing,you may be right to a considerable extent.

About a villager warning you?That is ridiculous.A villager that has no business with u telling you not to talk to your brother? Mannn! This does not add up at all.No true Igbo man would do that.The worst an Igbo man can do is to tell u to speak in a language he will understand if he is part of the discussion.A third comming to warn u?that's pure lie.I repeat,pure lie.Igbo villagers are the villager who will descend on any body that bullies a stranger.See u guys don't travel.A typical yoruba can spend his lifetime in a local government area,not to talk about a state or region,before Nigeria.Now besides a region in London,tell me where else in the world you travel or migrate to.My references are the educated yorubas but ur telling me abt villagers

Oga Samkoro, so you think I would come here on this platform as educated as I am to start peddling lies about an event that happened to me? Anyway, I don't want us to start concatenated arguments on what was or what is. I believe an educated person like you shouldn't argue based on hasty generalization. Again, you have come here to argue that Yorubas don't travel, another generalized assumption. I'm not even in Nigeria at the moment and there are lots of Yoruba folks where I am, though, I'll admit that Igbo folks have a larger population in my resident country. So, which statistics do you have to back that up? Well, all I have to say is that you guys should stop propagating tribal hatred on this forum. I also hope my Yoruba brothers on this forum are decent enough to be civilised in their comments.

samkoro: East is the only place an motor park tout will treat u with courtesy.That attitude to strangers is what-by default,restrains us from reprisal attacks.Its also the reason why we reach out to people,initiate friendship cos we expect others to do likewise.

Mr Samkoro, with all due respect, I totally disagree with this above point. I am totally against this "all- saint" propanganda which Igbos like you propagate on this forum. I did my NYSC in Enugu and I can tell you that I've had my own fair share of motor park touts' and drivers' shenanigan. You may not want to agree with me, but what you wrote above is a fallacy. Have you interacted with ALL the motor park touts in the East? How then do you come to such a conclusion of hasty generalization? If you are from a part of the East, I think you should limit your "assumption" to that area. May I add that Lagos appears to be the only place where we tend to have high cases of unruly motor park touts. Have you interacted with motor park touts in Akure, Abeokuta, Osogbo, Ado-Ekiti or even any other parts of Nigeria to believe they won't treat you with courtesy?

samkoro: On language also,Yorubas get nervous,insecure and uncomfortable when one speaks Igbo with a fellow Igbo in there midst.This attitude puzzles and pisses me off.I don't know the reason why.If you are in their midst they will speak and exclude u in the discussion as if u don't exist.We don't complain about that,but why I'm mentioning this is because Igbos will switch to english for u to be part of the discussio,have a sense of belonging and contribute to it.

This is another fallacy of yours. Again, during my service year in Enugu at a specified village in a local government close to Ninth Mile, I was warned by a villager NEVER to speak Yoruba to another NYSC colleague of mine. Why would a mere villager be scared and uncomfortable of two unarmed, friendly non-indigenes Youth Corpers discussing in their tribal language if not for the same attitude you accused Yorubas of above? You see, the problem with most of you Igbos on this forum is your steep and habitual hatred for Yorubas. Right there in that Igbo village, a good Igbo friend of us called us Yoruba. Infact, whenever he called us Yoruba, we laughed it off not knowing it was a derogatory and wicked word used to describe Yorubas. Infact, space will not permit me to list some of my experiences in the East. By the way, I'm not a tribalist but a concerned Westerner who is tired of these unfettered and provocative utterances of Igbos on Nairaland. If all Yorubas should start replying you based on their personal experiences in the East, I'm sure you won't like it. My take on this is that you guys should try balancing your tribalist views against OFEMMANUs like us or else, we will continue to spill out our nauseating experiences in the east. Ezi Okwu!!!

The Arabians, the descendants of Ishmael (or Ismaila) have been adequately described and prophesied in Genesis 16:7-12.

7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”

“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

9 Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

11 The angel of the Lord also said to her:

“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,[a]
for the Lord has heard of your misery.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward all his brothers.

Now, let's talk about the ancient Isrealites. Does the poster know that Isrealites (not just modern day Jews) are the most displaced people as far back as 2600 years ago? Does the writer also know that the Jews were unjustly expelled from their land for almost 1,880 years prior to 1949 by the Romans? Would it not be in order that they (the Jews) rightfully reclaim their lands? What this writer doesn't know is that Muslims are indirectly acting out biblical prophecies by carrying out terror strikes all over the world in the name of God. Afterall, from the maps below, Israel has not even succeeded in claiming up to half of what their country landmass used to be in the Davidic and Solomonic golden age.

May I give the poster some other information he may be unaware of; The peoples of America and Britain, and most Scandinavian countries are indirectly linked to Israel, genetically and spiritually . I have studied enough history to validate the claim that they represent a latent part of the lost tribes of Israel. So, the Israeli-Palestinian war will only get messier as the future progresses because the Jews are fighting for God's promise and the Palestinian are fighting for their rights. Personally, I don't see America backing down their support for Israel anytime soon. This indirectly means that the Arabs might step up their terror games in support of their brothers. By the way, what is Boko Haram fighting for?

MR MICKMEN: those highlighted words means what exactly,to make you feel better of belittle some peeps.ur typing are clear and we are not half blind,y? do we always allow region,religion of language divide us what do u tend to gain.pls reply.Nigeria is decaying everyday and our contribution is HIGHLIGHTING certain words y not highlight all.Nigerians are born with cancer of the mind,wetin small kids go come learn from us,its ur kind that will tell ur kids not to play with another tribe kid,corrupting their soul.............am tired of wording adults some are to be in a cage in a ZOO, at-least kids will pay on weekends

Can you please tell me why those highlighted words worry you so much? Does that warrant you being abusive and insulting the memory of my grandfather? It tells a lot about your intellectual capacity and inability to be creatively objective. Anything I posted was featured in today's vanguard newspaper which is in daily circulation. What exactly is your point? Try to be objective!!!

Umu Anambra, kee kwanu? Kedu ke'ichoro? The statistics say it all. By the way, what the hell are Nigerians doing in Iran of all places?

6000 Nigerians In Foreign Jails Over Drug Offences


BY OKEY NDIRIBE & EMMAN OVUAKPORIE

Director-General, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mr Femi Ajayi, weekend, said over 6,000 Nigerians were serving various jail terms across the globe for drug related offences.

Ajayi told the Abike Dabiri-Erewa-led House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Matters in Abuja that Nigeria had more of its nationals in prisons outside the country than any other African country.

Ajayi who listed some of the countries as Iran 4,000, Brazil 500, Thailand 500, Malaysia 300, said the list was more than that “but that was what we have for now.”

He said the bulk of those caught for drug related offences outside the country were from the South-East with majority coming from Anambra State.

“I don’t know what we can do about the large number of our brothers from the South-East who indulge in this illicit business. Can you believe that of the 500 Nigerians in Thailand prisons, 480 of them are from the South-East and 450 from it are from Anambra State?”

Ajayi further said the agency had been facing many challenges hindering the optimal performance of its duties as an enforcement agency on drug related matters.


for more information, read: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/6000-nigerians-in-foreign-jails-over-drug-offences/