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Many (certainly not all) of the armed robberies taking place in highways all over Nigeria are by Fulani herdmens. So where is the honesty claim coming from?

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/security-delta-bans-entry-of-herdsmen/

https://www.nairaland.com/354407/18-fulani-herdsmen-armed-robbers

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/fulani-herdsmen-remanded-for-murder-robbery/

http://www.punchng.com/news/suspected-fulani-herdsmen-strike-again-on-lagos-ibadan-expressway/

automaticcarzz: For whatever reason, you are so different from other Igbos with the way you communicate. I like the level of your maturiy. You are highly intelligent too.

That's a myopic comment. How many Igbos do you know?

Security: Delta bans entry of herdsmen
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BY Austin Ogwuda

Asaba—DELTA State Government says it has banned new entry of cattle rearers into the state as part of measures to monitor security situations in the state in order to ensure that the state was safe for Deltans and investors.

Secretary to Delta State Government, SSG, Mr. Ovuozourie Macaulay, weekend, when he ran into a robbery scene in broad daylight on Ogwashi-Uku/Kwale Road, which is one of the black spots, where bandits attack motorists and passengers at random, however, gave assurance that the state government would ensure that criminals were flushed out of the state.

The SSG, who ordered his security team into the bush in search of the criminals, also took part in the rescue operation of the robbery victims, which led to the rescue of one Juliana, who was shot on the upper arm by the robbers.

Another victim, Mrs. Olise Evelyn, said that she lost N200,000 to the robbers, who according to her, were suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, adding that robbery of vehicles, especially traders, was a common occurrence in that axis.

State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chike Ogeah, had last week, while commenting on the killings in Ogume purportedly carried out by Fulani herdsmen, said that the state government was finding a lasting solution to clashes between herdsmen and villagers, who complained of the destruction of their farmlands and subsequent harassment by the herdsmen.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/security-delta-bans-entry-of-herdsmen/

Edo man in Imo government

https://www.nairaland.com/243653/one-nigeria-edo-man-imo

automaticcarzz: I have to check on that. If true, that's fantstic gesture.

Check my links above. These happen way before Nwabueze

automaticcarzz: Token appointment? Post of a commissioner is not a bad start for someone who is of different tribe. Those public officials who served in the SE area were sent there by military regime. The apointment of an Igbo man as a commissioner that you called "token" wouldn't have happened any where in SE.

Festus adedayo from Oyo State was appoint chief press secretary (CPS) (cabinet position) by Nnamani of Enugu
Orji Kalu also did same

First as Special Assistant
http://allafrica.com/stories/200505310205.html

http://www.ebeano.org/articles/Enugu_testimony.html

And then CPS
http://www.dawodu.com/enugu6.htm

aminho: You termed me 'lazy', though my laziness
hasn't crippled me from farming enough
Rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, Maize,
Onions
& 85% of the stuff that make up your
daily staple. Ever wondered where and how the
wheat and millet that runs your breweries
come from? You said I'm 'unproductive',
because my
land has no oil. I wish to know how much
you payed God for the oil beneath your feet. Don't tell me your hard-work cause
its
existence! You mischievously call me
'Aboki' because I
choose to be generous, friendly & funny
instead of dubious, rude & cunning. you call me 'Malu' derogatorily... .. I regard
myself as such because I rear, breed &
transport the livestock which gave u Ise-
ewu, pepper-soup, suya, kilishi, kpomo
etc.
Lets not forget the hide/skin which makes
your shoe markets thrive. My dear brother,
Nations have survived and
prosper without exploring a single barrel
of
crude but no nation has ever (& can ever) survive without producing enough to feed
its citizens.
Remember its from our groundnut money
that we explored and drilled the oil in
your land which means its also our
investment Lets pray 4 a better nigeria we are one
good people great nation
With love from your friend 'Amshi'

Other than cow, can you name how many other food products grown/raised in the North that are staple food in the south? Do you give the cow meat for free? If it is not bought by southerners, where else will you sell it? If you had other places to sell it why have you not done so?

automaticcarzz: No one is preventing them from contesting. I hope you are not thinking they should be handed an elective offices without election. Some SE believe someone should just let them rule but it is not possible. You have to beat everyone else. Mind you, there is an Igbo commissioner(Nwabueze) serving in Fashola's governmeent. That couldn't have happened in Anambra or anywhere in SE.

Before Nwabueze dreamt of becoming an official in Lagos, a Yoruba had been in Enugu and also in Abia

Please google Festus Adedayo and Enugu State. This happened between 1998 and 2007.

Also a man from Edo was a high ranking govt official in Imo State during the regime of Ohakim

automaticcarzz: Igbos and Hausas are not tolerance when it comes to religion. It just not right to do that in a secular state as Nigeria.

Can you show where Igbos have attacked others based on their religion in Igboland?

eko ilee: Just look at the joy and pride on the man's face? He's obviously happy and comfortable with his decision and new political party.

Sometimes you have to drop the zeros and get with the HEROES..



I fell so happy for the people of Imo state..

Rochas will be the Apc candidate. iam happy for igbo prople

Fulani a/r/se-licking olateju aka prof corruption

Should this man not be in jail now?

CyberG: Wait for the party to announce if you really wish to know. While there is nothing like "perfect" candidate, we know what a good candidate is not! Don't engage me in any further conversation, I am averse to tribal bigots like you.

Wonders shall never end. See an everlasting bigot calling a learner bigot. You think your history is covered right? Anything Igbo boils your bile like acid. May you choke in it, bloody ignoramus. Rochas is of ACN. Let's see what you will do now.

CyberG: You people are desperate to be president so it is easy to see why you folks keep mentioning Rochas as presidential candidate although he has been governor for only 2+ years and never held any other leadership position before then. In one word, he in inexperienced and Nigeria does not need another learner IT student as president like the retardeen. Let him show that he can do in 8 years, do better than other governors and prove he is the best first before he thinks he can contest the presidency.

That said, his 2 years so far and achievement is widely contested and unconvincing! Many people in the ground disagree he is doing something worthy of being a candidate for national office. The recent sack of his deputy and funds traced to Lebanon for a contract paid in full without the work done suggests he knows something more. Let him turn Imo into a city like Ibadan or Eko not just hotels, 100 feeding allowance for kids, etc before you mention him as candidate. Plus, why would the brains behind APC even consider someone that his people will not vote for since the retardeen has already received their endorsement? Even ojukwu the "best" from the SE won only 3.3% when he contested for presidency.

Long talk. Who is the perfect APC candidate? Kwankawo tuned Kano to eldorado, right? Which Ibadan are you talking about? The one we ALL KNOW or another one?

I did not readily recall that Odia Ofeimum was Awolowo's bag carrier and tea maker. Therein lies his uninformed and/or prejudiced loyalty to Awo and hatred for Achebe. I dey laff ohh!!!

http://odili.net/news/source/2013/apr/9/322.html
Those Achebe left stranded

Pini Jason Tuesday, April 9, 2013



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By Pini Jason

ONE of the most profound interventions during the controversy provoked by ethnic jingoists following the publication of Prof. Chinua Achebe's valedictory commentary on Nigeria, There Was A Country, was made by the Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN.

While others jumped into the fray even without reading the book, Governor Fashola reminded everybody that his generation has moved on from the era of national madness that formed the basis of Achebe's book.

He also said that both Awolowo, whose unflattering mention in the book produced a herd of wannabe Awo defenders, and Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, have decided to move on too. On Thursday 21 March, 2013, Prof. Achebe himself moved on. But there are some people Achebe left stranded in their ethnic hate.

The Igbo say that if, while having your bath, a mad man carries your clothes and dashes off and you run after him naked, what the world would see are two mad men. Achebe's death seems to have provided a peg for some cowards, ethnic jingoists and literary revisionists on ethnic revenge mission to attempt a futile denigration of Achebe and his legacy.

Some of us have deliberately refrained from swallowing the bait to join such ethnic militants and literary insurgents in reducing the debate to ethnic brickbat. But some of these cowards have sustained their literary intifada since There Was A Country, masked with what is neither a critique nor obituary but clearly an exhibition of what Jonathan Raban, called a "massive personal disintegration".

In any case, such foibles were well foretold by Achebe whose attitude was that an author has no control over the interpretation people choose to give a literary work or what they choose to do with it, including the bizarre and the ridiculous.

In his triumphalism, Odia Ofeimun gloated: "For me, especially after the publication of There Was A Country, nothing could be more painful than a man dying just when you were learning to argue and debate with him" It is clear that everything Ofeimun has to say, even when he has nothing worthwhile to say, about Achebe, flows from his angst over There Was A Country. And he believes that putting words into someone's mouth, imputing your own motive, or visiting other people's failings on someone and proceeding to abuse the person on those accounts is how to "argue" and "debate" with him? Ofeimun is stranded in arguing and debating with himself! And he seems rather narcissistically obsessed with his imagined place as a repository of Nigerian political history.

He believes he is the enfant terrible of Nigerian literature who takes on the high and mighty. Anybody astonished by Ofeimun's obsessive swipes at Achebe needs to recall that more than being Chief Awolowo's clerk, taking on the foremost poet J.P Clark in his book, The Poet Lied, gained him some undeserved attention. Yet, I doubt if any of Ofeimun's books has ever sold 5,000 copies even in Ekpoma or elsewhere in the world! I will be glad to be corrected.

While trying to drag Achebe to his level, Ofeimun took liberty with facts, or believed that savaging Achebe permitted literary recklessness. In his eight-page masturbation in The News (Vol. 39 No 19 of 12 November 2012) titled: Achebe's Lies, he drifted, drooled and pranced all over the pages on virtually every political issue in Nigeria that had nothing to do with Achebe or There Was A Country. When he was eventually pinned down to specifics with this question: "Let's have the facts he [Achebe] misrepresented", Odia mentioned just one point which he himself admitted as "simple typographical errors" and veered off wildly like a car driven by a drunk.

Ofeimun said he read Things Fall Apart at age 13. But it was not until Achebe published There Was A Country that Ofeimun made the earth-shaking discovery that TFA is an undeserving literary work! And without exhausting the subject at hand, Ofeimun, as usual, drifted into history according to his own whims.

Whereas "Five Majors", as Nigerians have always known, planned the coup of 15 January 1966, Ofeimun emphatically asserts: "Look, five Igbo majors carried out a coup"! (The News Vol. 40, No 13 of 8 April 2013) So, for the purpose of transferring the sins of the soldiers to Achebe and the Igbo, Major Adewal eAdemoyega, one of the famous Five Majors, is Igbo! No! The poet simply lied!

Ofeimun's insinuation, echoed by one Ibrahim Bello-Kano, is that Achebe was lucky that TFA was ever published because of an unknown publisher "who wanted to move into this new era of African literature" and because Achebe was the editor of African Writers Series. Bello-Kano parroted the same nonsense that "the timing, 1960-1966 was fortunate because there was, then, a large literate international English-speaking reading public eager to get access to the new African writing, not to speak of publishers such as Heinemann, which was looking to cash in on it all".

So the logic of these revisionists is that Achebe had to wait for that opportunistic moment to write TFA or that without such opportunistic timing Achebe would not have written TFA? Were there no other writers that wrote at that opportunistic moment? What happened to those writers touted by Bello-Kano as more deserving, in his estimation, than Achebe to be called "Fathers of African literature"? I suspect that next time, Ofeimun and Bello-Kano will tell us that TFA was translated into 50 different languages because it was the gregarious Igbo scattered in those 50 countries of the world that bought off all the 10 million copies! That is what is left of the Nigerian intellectuals!

Like Ofeimun, Bello-Kano was simply out, not to do any scholarly criticism of Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah. He would have done so since 1987 when the book was published. He was out to vent his pique and petulance. Most of the issues he inelegantly dredged up about Anthills are not even original.

At least, Ofeimun can be credited as saying immediately the book was published that the plot was thin and I took Achebe up on that during my interaction with him at Nsukka in 1987. He simply said he achieved what he set out to do with the book. It was obvious that Bello-Kano pique which he had to cowardly express only after Achebe's death is due to how Achebe represented the North in the book.

The intellectual challenge faced by the stone-thrower was to prove that such representations were false. He did not do that, except to resort to childish abuses. That they are unpalatable truths do not change the reality.

Then there was my fellow columnist in this paper, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed who did himself unexpected injury by going to the internet to dredge up the grime that goes on in that cesspool where cowards hide their identity and holding them out as Achebe's People! (Vanguard Wednesday 3 April 2013) Haba!

The Igbo say that once you wander into the bush, you are likely to get a faecal welcome. Who does not know that the internet has today become a meeting place for the unserious and fellows feeding gluttonously on carrion? It is shocking that Baba-Ahmed could hold Achebe responsible for such putrid offerings in the internet while posing as an unjustly injured Awusa.

Oh please! Another unfortunate culture in the media is for hangers on to provoke needless controversy and attribute them to innocent people and start a war on their behalf. That was how we came to the Ashiwaju and Ogbuefi of African literature controversy immediately Prof. Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize. Neither Soyinka nor Achebe had ever indulged in such silly comparison. Both would be irritated by such inanities as my friend Sam Omatseye attempted to re-enact lately (The Nation Monday 1 April 2013).

Omatseye, as far as I know, is not a member of the Nobel Academy! Thank goodness that Soyinka and J.P Clark quickly issued their tribute to Achebe as soon as he died. A day late would have given sensation mongers room for some mischief that could provoke needless controversy!

Omo_Tier1: Like I said, you have never been to any embassy and possibly never traveled beyond the glorified village you live in so you really do not have a clue as to what sorts of questions Immigration or consular officers seldomly asked.

Try and get some wisdom, foolishness is not something to glory in

You will be so, so, surprised were you to know exactly who you are dealing with.

Omo_Tier1: Shameless about what? Disgruntled element. Your day can only be joyous when you read a negative but false report about ACN? Better get a life.

I wonder what sort of brain some of you have

Why is the story false? You shameless urchin. Would it be false were the thug an Igbo or Hausa?

OsunOriginal: It all depends on who calls Awolowo's name. The UPN idea from Fasheun (GEJ's thug) is dead on arrival in south west. Do you think South Westerners are dumbos or imbes.?

I beg make we hear word. Too much noise making of fake sophistication (my foot). All you guys do is political thuggery and killing of one another for politicalreasons. Another wetie wetie is about to happen. Just keep living in denial.

Eziachi: You watch as you like, but it a traditional ingredient of western politics-blood, tears and from from day one. Only that you guys make us believe otherwise, but we knew all the time that you live in pimpers paradise.
Awo vs Akintola
Awo vs OBJ
Ige vs Olukoye
Ajashi vs Omoboriowo
Tinubu vs OBj
Ife vs Modakeke
Ibadan vs Ogbomosho
Adedibu vs Everybody
Fasehun vs Gani Adam
Abiola vs Fela

Na today. A divided house from adamic era.

Omo_Tier1: Anybody that believe this report has either not been to the US consulate or has not been to any of the embassies of those western countries. The news report is just to sell newspaper and crack jokes.

You are so,so shameless. Just because it is an ACN SW thug, now the story is false.

Awon omo wetie wetie
Yoruba pa Yoruba. O ti tan. Case closed.

Only rude ACN thugs trained by the ACN rudeness master himself, Tinubu, can attempt to do this. Dem think say US embassy na Owambe party where people intimidate others with agbada?

Only rude ACN thugs trained by the ACN rudeness master himself, Tinubu, can attempt to do this. Dem think say US embassy na Owambe party where people intimidate others with agbada?

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US Embassy Denies Visa to Rude Nigerian Legislator Who Asked "Do You Know Who I Am"?

Written by Alaba Johnson on 09 April 2013.
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US Embassy Denies Visa to Rude Nigerian Legislator Who Asked "Do You Know Who I Am"?

HE arrived at the Consular office of the United States in Abuja last week in a flowing agbada, bearing his self-importance on his lapel. By the time he left, however, a member of the House of Representatives from the South West cut a pitiable sight: He had been denied visa.

That was after he had banged tables and engaged consular officers in a hot argument, consular sources confirmed to the Nigerian Compass. He had also issued several threats against the consular official who had demanded proof of his claim that he is a member of the federal legislative body.

The lawmaker, names withheld, flew into a rage when asked to produce his Certificate of Return, usually issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to successful election candidates.

In response, he repeatedly told the consular officer: "Don't you know I am the lawmaker of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?" He banged the table several times, and the official told the Nigerian “Big Man”: "Do you know that I reserve the right to deny you or to approve your application?"

It was reliably gathered that the lawmaker continued to bang the table and, the official subsequently drew the glass shield between him and the Nigerian big man, signifying the end of discussion.

A letter by the embassy refusing the visa application was, however, silent on the dramatic exchange between the legislator and the official. It simply read: "We have carefully examined your case and regret to inform you that you have been found ineligible for a non-immigrant visa under section 214[b] of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

"This may have been because you either did not demonstrate strong ties outside the United States or you were unable to demonstrate that your intended activities would be consistent with the type of visa for which you applied".

The letter continued: "To be eligible for a non-immigrant visa you must show that you meet the legal requirement of the type of visa for which you applied and that you will depart the United Sates at the end of your authorised stay.

"Today's decision cannot be appealed. You are welcome to reapply in the future, particularly if you feel there has been a significant change in your circumstances, or if you have additional compelling evidence to support your case that you did not present today".

When contacted, the lawmaker confirmed that he appeared before the Consular office and that his application was refused. He blamed the refusal on the handlers of the application process who, according to him, "did not tell me what to say.

They did not tell me the documents to take along, they were asking me of the INEC certificate which I did not know they would ask of. I have never been to the USA, so I did not know the evidence they would ask me to present.”

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/us-embassy-denies-visa-to-rude-nigerian-legislator-who-asked-do-you-know-who-i-am