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PrecisionFx:
I don't know who kemi is or weda his father is Otokoto.

""And she almost got away with it"

Hmmmmm, I didn't know u have arrested her Oga DPO...

What she's getting is worse than arrest - public humiliation and exposure as a thief!

PrecisionFx:
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Only witches from ur village can inspire you to believe such...

Premium Times

I won’t run for president in 2019 – Jonathan
Premium Times

Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has denied reports that he would contest the 2019 presidential election.
There were reports that Mr. Jonathan who left office last year following his defeat by President Muhammadu Buhari in the March 28, 2015 presidential election, was under pressure to return to power.
Vanguard newspaper quoted Ikechukwu Eze, media aide to Mr. Jonathan as saying in a statement that his principal had no plan to contest the 2019 presidential poll.
Mr. Eze said the former president did not at anytime declare an intention to contest, describing it as mere “fabrication.”
The statement said “Our attention has just been drawn to a fabricated online publication alleging that the former President Goodluck Jonathan made comments on the 2019 elections, while hosting his kinsmen in Otuoke last Tuesday.
“Those reports are false and bear no truth whatsoever..."

Caseless:
this where I see impossibility of a breakup.

Not only that but Igbos in particular are the most impossible to separate because they are everywhere - and in large numbers too.

Caseless:
I've been there on many occasions. That's the picture I have of Lagos. From Liverpool, or from a depot along wharf road to another around coconut, I was in a rush , so I took a bike.

What I saw that day on that road can't be described- it was horror-like. How the bike man was meandering through the long string of trucks stuck in various potholes as if he was going to bury me under one was scary.

Afraid still de catch me.

All na part of the fun

Caseless:
maybe, this is what got me having hope and, you just rekindled another phase of hope in me.

Of course. In fact if u remove the corrupt politicians and corrupt police 9ja is not so bad right now - also remove the ritualists, and kidnappers, and conmen, and yahoo boys, and brazen robbers, and Boko Haram, and IPOB, and Delta Avengers, and baby factories, and child molesters, and human traffickers, and...
my brother I tire.

Caseless:
I hope I can. Everybody is in a hurry. What a city.

Keeps u hopping - all part of the fun

Caseless:
I'm working on this. I can't take it. November reborn process activated.

Actually December is not so bad. It's close to November. Pity those in, say, August.

PrecisionFx:
Dreamzzzzz.

If they like let them sentence her to 6009 years imprisonment, we still luv our money. U and fake bubu courts can only talk as they like

You'll still love your MONEY? She's paying u? Is that a Freudian slip?

raindrop99:
Thanks op for enlightening me. I'm studying mech engineering, what skill can I acquire??

Learn social engineering

Makes sense

VillageWinch:
Never heard of her before. She had a beautiful voice

She did but this thread is not about Christy Igbokwe, it is about Awo and his controversies

Asaba Massacre: Seeking Healing 50 Years After

By Azuka Onwuka On Oct 6, 2017

It is not a good sight watching an adult fight tears. Even though the event happened 50 years ago, it was hard for Dr Ify Uraih to recount without being weighed down by emotions.

Like he testified in 2001 at the Nigerian Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (popularly known as Oputa Panel), which was commissioned by President Olusegun Obasanjo and charged to consider the history of human rights abuses from 1966 to May 1999, Uraih, over the weekend at the palace of the Asagba of Asaba, recounted how he and his father and two brothers faced a hail of bullets on October 7, 1967 at the Ogbe-Osowa Square in Asaba, where they had gathered to welcome the federal troops during the Nigerian Civil War. He was lucky to escape but his father and brothers were not lucky.

The casualties were not soldiers or combatants. They were not caught by friendly fire or accidental discharge. They were gathered together and gunned down in what remains one of the most callous incidents of the Nigerian Civil War.

When the Nigerian troops pushed out the Biafran troops from the Midwestern Region during the war, the Biafran troops retreated across the River Niger and broke the Niger Bridge. The Second Division of the Nigerian Army, led by Lt. Col. Murtala Mohammed, entered Asaba on October 4, 1967.
Between October 4 and 6, there were reports that the Nigerian soldiers killed men and boys of Asaba, on the allegation that they were sympathetic to the Biafrans or collaborated with the Biafran soldiers. In a bid to stop these killings, the elders of Asaba decided to embark on a parade through Asaba streets on October 7, which would culminate at the Ogbe-Osowa Square, to pledge their support for “One Nigeria.” The towncrier went round the community to inform the people, to come out dressed in their traditional white attire called akwa ocha for the ceremony.

On the fateful day, the people trooped out, dressed in their traditional white Asaba attire, chanting “One Nigeria,” waving the Nigerian flag and pledging their loyalty to Nigeria.
At the town square, they were addressed by Major Ibrahim Taiwo, who tongue-lashed them and accused the people of Asaba of hiding Biafran soldiers and sympathising with the Biafran soldiers. He threatened to kill all of them. Soldiers mounted machine guns and automatic rifles around the square facing them. It looked like a joke to many of those gathered there.

Some Asaba men, including the father of Mrs Maryam Babangida, former First Lady, Mr Nwanonye Okogwu, spoke on behalf of the Asaba people, telling the soldiers that they were civilians who were not taking part in the war. The Asaba people requested that the civilian population be allowed to leave town, so that the soldiers could take care of those they were after.

The Nigerian soldiers asked that the crowd march around the town to ask all those who were inside to come out, so that anybody not at the square would be taken as a dissident. The men and boys were separated from the women. The men and boys were marched out. A few metres away, those who had returned from the North and therefore understood Hausa heard a soldier tell other soldiers to take them in little groups of 10 for elimination. Dr Uraih recalled that his elder brother resisted joining the first group of 10 people. He was shot in the back and killed. Some people wanted to flee but were gunned down. And so the guns began to boom as the men and boys were mowed down. Those who were mortally injured raised their hands and asked to be killed. They were obliged with bouts of gunfire.

Long after the shooting stopped and the soldiers left, leaving death and blood behind, the few lucky survivors and the injured dragged themselves out of the place of death. Uraih, who was about 15 years old then, survived but his father Mr Robert Uraih, and his two brothers, Emma and Paul, lay dead. The next day, he came back with a wheelbarrow to take away the bodies of his father and brothers for burial to avoid having them buried in mass graves or eaten by scavengers.

It is estimated that after the three-day killing of civilians in Asaba by the soldiers, over a thousand fell victim.
Asaba was left with widows
and orphans. Almost every family lost a son or father. The only male survivors were those who had earlier fled Asaba before the arrival of the Nigerian troops or those who were too old or sick to come out to the square.

The strangest part of this massacre was that it was unprovoked and done in cold blood and in deceit. The victims had no inkling that such a fate awaited them. Who could imagine that people dressed in white, chanting their allegiance to One Nigeria would be gunned down by the same soldiers they were pledging allegiance to?

For decades, Asaba has lived with this horrific and traumatic experience in silence. Their story was swallowed by the events of the Nigerian Civil War, especially the starving children of Biafra. Most Nigerians have never heard of the fate that befell Asaba people on October 7, 1967. Ironically, those who led this massacre rose to become national heroes, with monuments named after them and beautiful tales told about them.

The Asaba people have decided to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this ugly incident in a way that will galvanise them towards rebirth and healing. Accordingly, the Asaba October 7 Memorial Group, led by Mr. Alban Ofili-Okonkwo, plans a four-day anniversary that will start on October 4 and end on October 8, with its theme as “Remembrance and Forgiveness”. The high points being the October 7 colloquium featuring Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah as keynote speakers as well as the presentation of a book on the carnage entitled, The Asaba Massacre – Trauma, Memories, and the Nigerian Civil War, authored by renowned anthropologist, Prof. S. Elizabeth Bird and co-authored by historian, Prof. Fraser M. Ottanelli, both of the University of South Florida.

Ofili-Okonkwo emphasises that in the spirit of forgiveness and rebirth, a maternity and school of midwifery would be established at the spot where the people were massacred and it will be named The Place of My Birth Hospital. The hospital will serve everybody from all walks of life and from all parts of the nation and the world. This hospital will save life and bring forth life in a place where life was snuffed out.

The group believes that with the sensitisation and citizen engagement programmes, healing and closure would be achieved to signal the collective resolve of Asaba indigenes to leave behind the memories of their tragic past and walk resolutely into a more promising future.

Even though Asaba people have decided to forgive and move on, Nigeria has not been able to find a solution to its lack of respect for human lives. Because it has never taken any decisive step to punish those, especially government agents, who waste human lives, the impunity to kill at will has continued over the decades in different parts of the country, whether in Odi or Zaki-Biam. This lack of punishment for cold-blooded murder of civilians has emboldened more government agents to kill more civilians.

That those who murdered defenceless civilians in Asaba have never been reprimanded in life or in death, neither has Nigerian government acknowledged that its troops massacred its citizens without provocation is a dent on Nigeria’s image. It is never late to do a good thing.

PrecisionFx:
Check in from time to time to see what I came here to do.

Patience Jonathan Companies
Found Guilty!
02/11/2016 12:24:00

The Federal High Court has pronounced a guilty verdict on four companies used by Patience Jonathan to launder $15.5m. PM News reports that the verdict was read on Wednesday, November 2 by the court.

Waripamo Dudafa who is the former personal assistant to former president, Goodluck Jonathan allegedly used the companies to launder the money on behalf of the former first lady. The account of the former first lady was frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged act of corruption.

The sentence has also been reserved until the conclusion of the trial of the three accused persons involved in the case. Meanwhile, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) was sued by Patience Jonathan for asking the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate.

Caseless:
I wonder what Awo was thinking then. If he was here, he'd have corrected that expression. My worry is, people of this age and time who still uses that expression. We could overlook that of Awo because the time he said it . But saying it at this time of scientific and technological advancements, is ridiculous. I'm sure geography wasn't as rich then as it is now.

Awo had a point at the TIME he said it. But even at that time there were already people like Zik, who was born in the North, settled in the West and was fluent in all three languages, people who couldn't bear to see the country split up. But now there are a million times more such people. Everything is just too intertwined.

Caseless:
I read the tweetshots and I became weak.



I dunno where I get that belief that Nigeria will be better one day from.



I give up.

It's disheartening. Can we ever get it right? Na apapa road be that.

That's Apapa wharf area, Nigeria's premier seaport!

Caseless:
I read the tweetshots and I became weak.



I dunno where I get that belief that Nigeria will be better one day from.



I give up.

It's disheartening. Can we ever get it right? Na apapa road be that.

Of course Nigeria will get better. Or at least it will radically change from what you see now. TIME has a way of working that kind of magic.

Caseless:
what?


Lagos na die.

Not if u know way. It grows on you.

Caseless:
looking at my mom right now. She for just drop me , at least on 30th of September.

You mean Oct. 30th.
Sorry bro. If only u can go back to be re-born Oct. 23 - Nov. 21. Better luck next time - if there is a next time. Just believe there is re-incarnation. That's your only chance.

bencarson007:
Welcome Dr Adora Ulasi.
My full name is Benjamin Orogun.

Please,can you send me a link to that topic.
And I like your name Adora.

Thank u so much, Ben. People tend to like the name. Except those who read a different meaning into it.
Here is the link:

https://www.nairaland.com/4162629/nigerias-richest-first-lady-ever/7#62291135

bencarson007:
Hello ma, I hope you know I got banned just because I tried to stop you from insulting a woman old enough to be our mother.
That woman is not worse than the former first ladies we have had and as far as I know, no competent court has convicted her yet.

We all need to mind what we say and do on SM so they don't come back to haunt us someday. I learnt my lesson though.

Once again doc, I am sorry if I offended you by my comment!
I hope we can be friends irrespective of our opinions and political inclinations.
My name is Benjamin and I hope to know yours too!

Sorry about your ban dear. My name is Dr. Adora Ulasi.
We have a new thread on mama titled: "Nigeria's richest first lady ever. What a woman!" Check it out.

My question is who the heck is this Emeka Ike? Is he as bad as mama thief and her ilk?

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Just came across this...
PrecisionFx I know you will love this

WetinConsignMe:
Stop derailing. Now back to topic.
So did Gowon promise Awo presidency once the war was over?

I no dey derail. U see Christy photo with Ojukwu.
And today gan gan na im birthday

PrecisionFx:
Nnem am not responsible for "What u think u know"

Yep I know. There are signs and dead giveaways

PrecisionFx:
Oh pls nne stop jumping from Pillar to post. I have worked for many years for national population commission as a quality controller(my uncle was the director of Carthography(I can actually mention his name so that u can browse up) So he hooked me up. I was part of trial census 2005, census proper 2006 and Post enumeration survey in 2007.

WHO, UNICEF, RED CROSS, EU, UNDP etc (i luv their surveys, they usually pay far far higher than surveys directly organised by NPC, they pay peanuts) organize regular surveys nationwide thru NPC like Education surveys, several forms of health surveys involving teaching of entire communities about issues concerning child bearning, use of contraceptives, hygeine, immunization and so so many more..... The last survey was in February this year in SE, NE and SW.
Don't even go there at all nne.

Meaning what? Point is u have not lived with and in another tribe for years

Real shocker


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhEPbrfE4YM

PrecisionFx:
Nope.
I'm igbo.
From Enugu State.
From Ngwo.
In UDI local government.
My community is Okwojo Ngwo.
My Kindred is Umunne Odo.
Chime is the nuclear family name.
And am not igbo man in Diaspora.
I was born n raised in new haven Enugu.
I presently live in Independence layout Enugu.

No wonder. You have not been exposed to other cultures and people tend to fear/hate what they don't understand