Wishing you long life and prosperity.

Long Live Professor Chinua Achebe

Long Live Ndigbo

Long Live Nigeria



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80th or 81st?

happy BIRTHDAY proff

Long life to a Rare breed from Nigeria,

HBD and many years to come.

How I wish every iboman is like him. Principled and forthright, unlike the habitual liars on Nairaland.

Francis-1:

At least in your estimation Igbos got one person with those qualities
In my own estimation, there is no single Yoruba with such quality. All you got are big bad wolves like Bankole, Obasanjo, Tinubu, Bode George, Tafa Balogun and Awo who committed suicide when his sins caught up wit him

And you still wonder why you qualify as a chronic liar? I doubt Achebe would want anything to do with your likes.
Maybe this is why he is hiding away jeje in America. The threat of kidnapp alone!

Happy birthday Chinua Achebe

Francis-1:

Hahahaha!! Even Obasanjo, bad as he is, Yoruba as he is, does not want to have anything to do with Yoruba. Isn't that why you guys hate him?

But Obasanjo lives in Otta, and all the other people you mentioned lives or lived in Yorubaland. They are not running as far away as possible from possible kidnappers like you.

I wonder why Yorubas do everything within their power to escape to UK. Could it be due to this?

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/09/15/mayhem-in-ibadan-as-nurtw-factions-clash/

Here is Francis; Nna, the man don old na, wetin hin go do with all the award money na? make we go kidnapp am jare. You know if we no get money by age 25 we be nobodi. Where hin dey live?

Omo ole.

Happy birthday Achebe.

A man of great vision and insight to literature writing. He is indeed the PRIDE of Nigeria and we Nigerians are indeed proud of you sir. May you live long sir.

Perhaps it is time that Yorubas in Igboland like these ones here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgXVWJxqD2c&feature=related

Are kidnapped like Igbos in Yoruba have been in the past

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-171774.0.html

What do you think, Aigbofa?

^^^^^^

Try your diversionary tactic on an i.mbecile like yourself. No sensible ibo with any money can live in iboland without a small army of security guards.

Francis-1:

I wonder why Yorubas do everything within their power to escape to UK. Could it be due to this?

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/09/15/mayhem-in-ibadan-as-nurtw-factions-clash/

Ibos, u don start another Biafra now, when you have your heads blown off. dont cry foul ooooooooo

This one is this week ohhh!!!


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-804431.0.html


20 Die In NURTW Factional Clash In Sango Ota

Francis-1:

This one is this week ohhh!!!


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-804431.0.html


20 Die In NURTW Factional Clash In Sango Ota

Professor of hydroponics, stop being childish.

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on: August 11, 2010, 03:41 PM »

Any time there seem to be any news about NURTW it is always from the southwest. Be it clashes between various factions of NURTW sometimes assuming a fatal dimension or death resulting from disputed election of their members. Go to the north or east Yoruba people are well represented in NURTW.Nigeria Tribune 11th August, 2010: Hoodlums throw Ibadan into confusion •As NURTW members clash over motor parks

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Written by Emmanuel Adeniyi, Dare Adekanbi and Adebayo Waheed Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Residents of Ibadan were on Tuesday, thrown into confusion, as they scampered for safety when pandemonium broke out and another SinParty of violence was brazenly displayed by some road transport workers in the city.

The hoodlums, who went to Molete, Oja-Oba, Sango, Challenge, Eleyele and many other places in the metropolis threatened to take over motor parks in Ibadan allegedly to enforce a court order.

It will be recalled that Oyo State government recently proscribed the union in the state and directed chairmen of local governments to take over the existing motor parks in the state in a bid to maintain peace and prevent breakdown of law and order in the parks.

According to an eyewitness, the hoodlums shot sporadically into the air, while some of them went about brandishing dangerous weapons, apparently to ward off possible attacks from their opponents and create an impression of their readiness to take over the motor parks in the metropolis.

The Oyo State police commissioner, Alhaji Baba Adisa Bolanta, who confirmed the arrest of 17 persons, said that 24 vehicles and 12 motorcycles which they used to terrorised members of the public were also impounded, while dangerous weapons were recovered from them.

Meanwhile, an Ibadan-based youth organisation, the Oluyole Vanguard has warned the union against turning the Ibadan metropolis into a battlefield over the leadership crisis rocking the state chapter of the NURTW.

In a statement signed by its secretary, Miss Abimbola Alabi, and made available to the Nigerian Tribune, the group called on Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, the state commissioner of police, Alhaji Adisa Bolanta and other stakeholders to curb the “violent activities” of the union in the interest of law-abiding residents of Ibadanland.


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The leadership crisis rocking the Oyo State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers again took a bloody dimension yesterday as loyalists of the two factional leaders went on rampage in most parts of Ibadan , the state capital, leaving scores of people wounded.

Members of the union in a show of strength attacked one another with dangerous weapon such as guns, machettes, broken bottles and sticks and held many residents of the areas where the clashes were recorded, hostage for several hours.
The latest clash, it was gathered was over who control of the garages within the metropolis.

While the faction belonging to the reinstated chairman of the union, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola a.k.a Tokyo was claiming the ownership of most of the garages within the metropolis “as the authentic chairman of the union, the factions of Alhaji Lateef Salako (Eleweomo) on the other hand was adamant that they would not allow Tokyo to take control of the union since the state government had proscribed the union.

The state government had last weekend announced the proscription of NURTW in the state over what it described as the violent dimension of the crisis rocking the union. The government then ordered the 33 local government chairmen in the state to take total control of motor parks in their areas.
Since the government declaration, violence had engulfed Ibadan , the state capital as factions of the union clash.

Meanwhile, a frontline politician and a member of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in the state ,Senator Lekan Balogun had described the recent proscription of the state NURTW by the state governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala as not only unconstitutional and tyrannical, but a slap on the face of the law.

According to Balogun, “The should be informed and educated that no public office holder has any constitutional right to abrogate the constitutional right of any citizen to associate. Formation of trade unions like the NURTW is a right that is constitutionally derived and re-affirmed by the treaty of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to which Nigeria is a signatory. Such illegality cannot stand when challenged in the law court”.
However, yesterday’s clash Daily Sun reliably gathered may have erupted due to what one of the factional camps described as imposition on the part of the government.

The renewed fight, it was learnt started when members loyal to Alhaji Akinsola (Tokyo) got wind of the information that those appointed as motor parks managers by the 33 local government chairmen were men of the factional leader of the group, Alhaji Lateef Salako.
They were alleged to have stormed different motor parks to take total control of the parks.
There were reports of clashes in areas like Mokola Roundabout, Sango, Ojoo and New-garage parts of the metropolis.

At New-garage, Tokyo ’s faction was alleged to have stormed the garage at the early hour of yesterday to take total control of the garage as “authentic chairman of the state union”.
Members of the union were sighted at Mokola ,Sango droving recklessly in convoy of buses, cars and motorcycles in a show of strength.
During one of such trips, they stopped over at a building housing one of the unit offices of the state NURTW, ransacked the office and removed some posters and portrays of the factional leaders of the union.
While a few of them entered the office, others took strategic points on the highway, brandishing guns, machetes and charms.
Some of them who were sighted tied charms around their heads and waists, while also shooting sporadically into the air.

As at the time of sending this report, there were reported cases of clashes in areas like Beere and Olomi,the state secretariat of the union,but the actual figure of casualties could not be ascertain.
When contacted on the telephone, the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Olabisi Okuwobi, confirmed that there were breaches of peace in some areas.
She added that the police are on top of the situation and that series of arrests have been made by the command but that it would be too early to disclose the figure “because it is an ongoing thing.”
She however encouraged members of the public to go about their normal business as peace would be restored into the troubled spot,saying those behind the renewed clash would be prosecuted.

And yet another

Mayhem, Fire, Brimstone, war in Yorubaland over council polls

* 10 feared killed
* Thugs abduct 50 students, others
* Detain hostages at Adedibu's home
* Torch houses, vehicles

From Iyabo Lawal and Temitope Ariyo, Ibadan

FOR several hours yesterday, Ibadan and its neighbouring towns in Oyo State literally stood still as thugs went on rampage, shooting sporadically into the air, killing and maiming people. They burnt houses and cars, hijacked electoral materials and kidnapped several persons linked to the state governor, Alhaji Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja.


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At the end of the mayhem, 10 persons were feared dead, and several houses and vehicles were burnt.

Some indigenes including the factional chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) loyal to Governor Ladoja, Alhaji Gboyega Abubakre and some students of the Polytechnic, Ibadan, were detained at the Molete home of controversial politician, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu. Five of the deceased persons were killed in Saki during a factional crisis between members of the NURTW, three died in Oyo while two others were killed at Iyana Church and Oke Bola areas of Ibadan.

The Odo-Oba Elere residence of the NURTW factional chairman as well as the country home of Mr. Bayo Lawal, the state Commissioner for Information were among the five houses burnt across the state by the rampaging thugs.

But despite the activities of the hoodlums, the controversial local council election took place without police presence in some local councils in the state capital as well as Oyo, Ogbomoso, Saki and Oke Ogun among others.

Adedibu has declared the election as a nullity and a wasteful exercise.

Signs that the council election might turn bloody were visible on Wednesday evening when about 100 hoodlums shutdown the state-owned radio and television stations after switching off the transmitters and destroying vehicles in the premises.

A band of thugs who wielded yesterday morning, dangerous weapons including cutlasses, charms, axe, arms and ammunition were said to have taken off from Molete in commuter vehicles in batches to designated wards and local councils.

Although roads were deserted while shops were locked, there was booming of gunshots as the hoodlums went round the metropolis to ensure that the elections did not hold.

At Oke Padre area of Ibadan, the rampaging thugs intercepted a lorry conveying electoral materials and about 50 students of the Polytechnic recruited as ad- hoc staff by the state Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) for the election. The thugs fired shots into the air apparently to ward off any opposition before taking them to Molete.

It was the same situation at Challenge, Orita, Oke Bola and Ring Road in the state capital as the hoodlums went from one area to the other, driving recklessly on the streets, shooting into the air while some kept vigil at the local councils to prevent the conduct of the election.

Journalists were not spared as, the crew of a Lagos-based television station, Channels, were waylaid by the thugs at the toll gate end of the city. The hoodlums seized the crew's camera and detained them for several hours before releasing them without their camera.

At the Ibadan North West Local Council, the rampaging thugs fired shots to disperse the voters who had formed a queue.

The hoodlums then proceeded to the OYSIEC office within the council secretariat to destroy materials meant for the election.

The ballot papers alongside other materials were angrily flung out by the thugs who also destroyed the window panes, vehicles as well as offices within the council secretariat.

But for the intervention of security men, the hoodlums could have attacked the Government House.

They paraded the streets in a manner that suggested that they wanted to gain entry into the governor's abode. They shot indiscriminately into the air but the mobile policemen on guard mounted a tight security.

The thugs then drove to the nearby Ibadan North Local Council, seized the ballot bags and dispersed the voters.

For about 15 minutes, the thugs shot non stop at the frontage of the Government House and when their bid to gain entry failed, they proceeded to the state secretariat where they also fired guns into the air before driving off.

It was a similar story at Iwo Road, Gate, University of Ibadan (UI) - Ojoo, Orogun, Akobo and Bashorun.

Alhaji Abubakre, factional chairman of the NURTW and long standing opponent of a controversial Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in the state, was abducted by the thugs and taken to Molete while his vehicle and house were set ablaze.

Some of his boys were also rounded up across the various motor parks and detained at the residence of the Molete warlord.

But the situation was relatively calm at Apata, Bodija, Mokola, Old Ife Road, Egbeda, Ido, Ibarapa and some other areas in the state capital where the residents went out to cast their votes without any intimidation.

The governor in an interview with reporters expressed satisfaction with the turn out of people, saying the violence and skirmishes witnessed in some parts of the state were still tolerable when compared to that of the April 14

and 21 governorship and presidential polls in the state.

Ladoja pointed out that despite the initial hiccups placed on their way by the judiciary, which he said allowed itself to be turned into a political entity, the government was able to actualize its aim.

On the absence of police on the streets, Ladoja said while it was not the duty of the police or law enforcement agencies to be involved in the electoral process, he however pointed out that their duty in the maintenance of law and order was sacrosanct.

"Our position is that electoral process is not the responsibility of the police. Their duty is to maintain law and order, as long as there is rancour in the society they are supposed to maintain peace. The violence of today was not as bad as that of the just concluded general elections. If it is now the culture of Nigerians that electoral issues must be accompanied by violence, then Nigerians will decide that," he said.

Ladoja disclosed that the attack on the state-owned radio and television station by thugs, was sponsored by a PDP chieftain in the state, adding that all the equipment carted away at the broadcasting station were taken to the home of the controversial politician by the thugs.

"If Alhaji Adedibu who claims to be a supporter of the governor-elect, Adebayo Alao-Akala is behaving this way, you can expect the kind of government we will have on May 29," Ladoja said.

The governor, who said that the matter had been reported to the police for necessary action, however expressed doubt over the ability of the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Jonathan Johnson to bring the culprits to book saying the police boss had outlived his usefulness.

"The state government, local branch of the Nigeria Bar Association as well as civil society groups have complained to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, that the state police boss has outlived his usefulness in Oyo State but we don't know what he is still doing here. Let us hope that one day, the IG will wake up to his responsibility or when a new police chief comes, he will look into it."

On the rising cases of lawlessness in the country, Ladoja expressed hope that the new administration of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua would bring about the change Nigerians desired.

He recalled that the outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo recently described Yar'Adua as a patient and reflective unlike those who are not patient and reflective in their approach to issues", Ladoja added.

"By this time next week, we are going to have a responsible government."

But Adedibu dismissed the council election, saying as far as he was concerned, it was a nullity and would be reversed as soon as Alao-Akala comes on board on May 29.

He said: "There is no election and there will never be. The mandate of the people has been given to Alao-Akala. How can somebody leaving on Tuesday say he wants to conduct local government council election today? If Alao-Akala comes on board next week, he will reverse all the actions of Ladoja, including contracts awarded."

Adedibu also disclosed that apart from the state broadcasting station, other media houses in the state had been warned against being used in the political crisis of Oyo State so as not to incur the wrath of the incoming administration.

The state Police Commissioner said that his men did not take part in the council election but confirmed that some people were killed in Saki in a fracas he said was caused by members of the two factions of the NURTW. He, however, could not ascertain the number of deaths recorded.

Johnson, who expressed surprise over the alleged detention of some persons at the Molete home of Adedibu, said his men would be deployed to the place for investigation.

Yet another

Bloody day in Oyo
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Bisi Oladele and Oseheye Okwuofu, Ibadan 25/02/2011 01:54:00
image Scene of horror: The burnt vehicles at the secretariat after the violence, yesterday PHOTO: FEMI ILESANMI

A bloody day it was in Oyo State yesterday. Seven persons were killed in two incidents.

An attempt by officials of the state government to demolish the secretariat of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at Olomi, Ibadan, led to a two-hour shooting duel between the police and NURTW men. When the smoke cleared, two people lay dead.

The NURTW faction led by Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (a.k.a Tokyo) is locked in a running battle with the government, which is backing the late Lateef Salako (alias Eleweomo) faction.

Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala proscribed the NURTW and vowed to demolish its secretariat, an action that the Tokyo group resisted yesterday.

Also yesterday, five supporters of Alao-Akala died in a road accident at Moniya in Akinyele Local Government Area. They were on their way from Oyo where the governor, who is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, launched his campaign.

The bus in which the victims were travelling, shidded off the road and somersaulted twice. The five people died on the spot.

The Unit Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) at Moniya, Mr Adebayo Francis said 15 others were injured.

The commercial bus is registered XU479 KSF

Officials of the Ministry of the Environment allegedly led a team, consisting of over 200 riot policemen, to the one-storey NURTW building as early as 8:20 am.

Sources said the team came with five Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs), a lorry and trailer conveying a bulldozer.

They were said to have fired teargas canisters and live bullets when the Tokyo men resisted their forcible entry.

The deceased were identified as Nurudeen Azeez and Ismaila Agbojo.

One person was injured. He was taken to an undisclosed private hospital in the city.

After the government team left, the NURTW members protested the assault on their premises.

They made bonfires on roads leading to the area.

The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was blocked. There was a massive traffic jam.

Motorists detoured; shop owners hurriedly closed down and ran for safety.

The lorry and trailer brought by the demolition team were burnt down by the protesters who also vandalised the bulldozer.

Spokesman of the Tokyo faction Yunus Olatunde urged the Federal Government intervene in the crisis.

He said the governor should respect last October’s court order, which restrained the government from demolishing the building, pending the determination of the case.

Commissioner of Police Adisa Bolanta said the command assisted the government with some policemen.

He said police vehicles were sent to the premises for security purpose.

Bolanta said the command sent a new batch of policemen to quell the violence following a distress call from the government team.

Residents were still in fear yesterday. But the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of Oluyole Local Government Area Alhaji Kehinde Olaosebikan, assured them of the safety of their lives and property.

Olaosebikan, in a statement, condemned the clash between the NURTW men and the police.

The chairman praised the police for standing up to the union members.

He said "the government will continue to protect the lives and property of the citizens".

The Rashidi Ladoja Campaign Organisation condemned "the unnecessary shedding of blood and promotion of violence in Olomi."

The Accord Party governorship candidate, according to a statement, said Alao-Akala has no legal right to interfere in the internal affairs of the NURTW.
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War In Ibadan - 20 Dead


Night of terror in Ibadan: •20 feared dead in NURTW clash •50 vehicles vandalised; 20 shops razed •25 NURTW members arrested - Police •Govt may proscribe union today

Written by Adebayo Waheed and Dare Adekanmbi Monday, 06 June 2011

NO fewer than 20 people, among them a pastor, were killed with several others sustaining gunshot injuries in a renewed clash between members of the factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Ibadan, Oyo State, in the early hours of Sunday.

Also, about 20 shops were razed down while 30 others were looted and vehicles numbering 50 were vandalised by union members during the clash which lasted five hours.

Most of the victims were said to be passengers, who were waiting for night buses at the Total petrol station on the Ibadan-Ife road.

An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the people were taken unawares by the NURTW members, led by Mr Mukaila Lamidi, also known as Auxiliary, who was said to have gone to reclaim the motor park, which was taken over by members loyal to Alhaji Lateef Akinsola Oluwatoki, also known as Tokyo, last Monday.

It will be recalled that last Monday, a faction of the union, led by Tokyo, had clashed with the other faction at the Iwo road interchange, during which one person was killed and 10 others sustained injuries.

Eyewitnesses disclosed that the hoodlums had arrived at the motor park around 11.45 p.m. and started shooting sporadically at the filling station, during which people were killed and others injured.

It was learnt that 33 people were taken to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan and that 14 had been discharged.

A police source told the Nigerian Tribune that causality was more than last Monday’s.

“Where were journalists when the corpses were still on the ground?” a policeman had asked.

When Nigerian Tribune visited the Iwo road interchange during the clash, some of the shops torched were still smouldering.

An official of the state fire service, Mrs Olunike Olayinka, said they received distress call around 9.30 a.m. and by 10.00 a.m., when they arrived, the shops were still burning.

According to her, 20 shops were burnt with property worth millions of naira destroyed in the inferno.

She said that the arrival of fire-fighters halted the spread of the fire to the adjourning shops at the park.

No fewer than 50 mobile policemen with eight patrol vehicles and four Armoured Personnel Carriers were on the ground to restore, law and order.

At the time of filing this report, mobile policemen had taken over the control of the park while both human and vehicular traffics were being checked, as people were being ordered to raise their hands.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Oyo State Police Command, SP Olatunji Ajimuda, who confirmed the clash, said that about 25 members of the union had been arrested in connection with the incident.

Speaking on the number of people allegedly killed, he said he was not aware of the number of those killed but that some people were taken to the UCH.

Meanwhile, state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, on Sunday, said his administration might reconsider proscribing the state chapter of the NURTW in the interest of peace in the state.

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why is ftranger wishing the Prof a happy birthday? stupid boy

lucenzo:

why is ftranger wishing the Prof a happy birthday? silly boy

Why are you calling him a silly boy ?

Why can't he wish Achebe a good birthday wish ?