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Omo ibo how market?

''Yoruba people are brainless'' – Kemi Olunloyo (YORUBA Leader) compares the Nigerian tribes

https://www.nairaland.com/1233899/yoruba-people-brainless-kemi-olunloyo

Guess how only Yorubas (with the exception of GOOD ones like Soyinka) have a negative thing to say against Achebe in death. Google the internet and see that out of 6 or 7 billion or so people on earth, only some paltry 20 million humans (all Yorubas) have said something bad about him. The remaining 10 million Yorubas either are too uneducated to even know Achebe, or are among the few GOOD ones.

Eko Atlantic#:
ripP to Aschebe

Guess how only Yorubas (with the exception of GOOD ones like Soyinka) have a negative thing to say against Achebe in death. Google the internet and see that out of 6 or 7 billion or so people on earth, only some paltry 20 million humans (all Yorubas) have said something bad about him. The remaining 10 million Yorubas either are too uneducated to even know Achebe, or are among the few GOOD ones

Tolexander: mr fault finder!

Why didn't you first find out.
Instead!
Why don't you first find out indeed!

I can see how intellectual you are with tenses!

Absolute rubbish. ''Why don't you'' is 100% correct as used. You are an intellectual midget wanting to correct a giant.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/chinua-achebe

Chinua Achebe obituary

Founding father of African fiction whose novels chronicled Nigeria's troubled history

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Lyn Innes
The Guardian, Friday 22 March 2013 09.56 EDT

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Chinua Achebe in 1967. He championed the cause of Biafra's independence and was determined that the Igbo presence and perspectives should continue within the Nigerian nation. Photograph: Michael Neal

Chinua Achebe, who has died aged 82, was Africa's best-known novelist and the founding father of African fiction. The publication of his first novel, Things Fall Apart, in 1958 not only contested European narratives about Africans but also challenged traditional assumptions about the form and function of the novel. His creation of a hybrid that combined oral and literary modes, and his refashioning of the English language to convey Igbo voices and concepts, established a model and an inspiration for other novelists throughout the African continent.

The five novels and the short stories he published between 1958 and 1987 provide a chronicle of Nigeria's troubled history since the beginning of British colonial rule. They also create a host of vivid characters who seek in varying ways to take control of their history. As founding editor of the influential Heinemann African writers series, he oversaw the publication of more than 100 texts that made good writing by Africans available worldwide in affordable editions.

Born in the traditional Igbo village of Ogidi, eastern Nigeria, some 40 years after missionaries first arrived in the region, Achebe was christened Albert Chinualumogu by his Christian convert parents. Later, in an autobiographical essay entitled Named for Victoria, Queen of England, he told how, like Queen Victoria, he "lost his Albert".

Growing up as a Christian allowed him to observe his world more clearly, he wrote. The slight distance from each culture became "not a separation but a bringing together like the necessary backward step which a judicious viewer might take in order to see a canvas steadily and fully".

At the local missionary school, however, the children were forbidden to speak Igbo, and were encouraged to disown all traditions that might be associated with a "pagan" way of life. Nevertheless, Achebe absorbed the folk tales told to him by his mother and older sister, stories he described as having "the immemorial quality of the sky, and the forests and the rivers".

When he was 14, Achebe was sent to the prestigious colonial Government college at Umuahia, where his schoolmates included the poet Christopher Okigbo, his close friend. In 1948, he won a scholarship to study medicine at what became the University of Ibadan. After his first year, however, he realised it was writing that most appealed to him, and he switched to a degree in English literature, religious studies and history.

Although the English curriculum closely followed Britain's, teachers also introduced works they considered relevant to their Nigerian students, such as Joyce Cary's African novels and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. But such works were at odds with the changing mentality brought about by the anti-colonial movements in west Africa following the second world war.

Achebe was among several future literary stars, including Wole Soyinka, who, between 1948 and 1952, contributed stories and essays to student magazines with a nationalist orientation. Even in these early pieces, one can discern Achebe's characteristic qualities: a coolly amused view of the educated elite, a carefully balanced structure of contrasts, a pleasure in mimicking or parodying various modes of discourse, an interest in rural Nigeria and the uneasy interaction between western and Igbo cultures, and an insistence on what he saw as the crucial Igbo value of tolerance. It is in one of these stories that a favourite proverb of his makes its first appearance: "Let the hawk perch and let the eagle perch."

By the time he graduated in 1952, Achebe had decided to be a writer telling the story of Africans and the colonial encounter from an African point of view. One of his motivations was Cary's Nigeria-set novel Mister Johnson, which, though much praised by English critics, seemed to him "a most superficial picture of Nigeria and the Nigerian character". He thought: "If this was famous, then someone ought to try and look at this from the inside."

What had originally been planned as one long novel, beginning with the colonisation of eastern Nigeria and ending just before independence, turned into two shorter novels, Things Fall Apart (set in the late 19th century) and No Longer at Ease (set in the decade before Nigeria gained its independence). While the second novel takes up and retells the plot of Mister Johnson – the story of a young Nigerian clerk who takes a bribe and is tried and sentenced by the colonial administration – the first seeks, with consummate success, to evoke the culture and society Mister Johnson and his ancestors might have come from.
Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe with two editions of his first novel, Things Fall Apart. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/Time Life Pictures/Getty

Things Fall Apart recreates an oral culture and a consciousness imbued with an agrarian way of life, and demonstrates, as Achebe put it, "that African peoples did not hear of civilisation for the first time from Europeans". At the same time, he sought to avoid depicting precolonial Africa as a pastoral idyll, rejecting the nostalgic evocations of Léopold Senghor and the francophone négritude school of writing.

The protagonist, Okonkwo, emerges as a heroic but rigid character, whose fear of appearing weak leads him to act harshly towards his wives and children and to participate in the sacrifice of a young hostage from another village. Its characterisation and enclosed rural world have been compared to The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, a novelist Achebe admired. Things Fall Apart has sold millions of copies and has been translated into more than 50 languages.

No Longer at Ease, set in 1950s Nigeria and published in 1960, takes up the story of Okonkwo's grandson, an idealistic young Nigerian civil servant who returns home after studying in England, finds his salary inadequate for his expected lifestyle, and takes a bribe.

By this time, Achebe himself had been on the first of many trips abroad. As head of the talks department at the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS), he was sent in 1956 on a short training course with the BBC in London. Back in Nigeria, he edited and produced discussion programmes and short stories for the NBS in Enugu, eastern Nigeria, and learned much about how good dialogue works. There, he met Christie Chinwe Okoli, a beautiful and brilliant student from Ibadan University. They married in 1961 and had four children.

While preparing a feature on the response of Nigerians to early colonial rule, Achebe investigated the story of an Igbo priest imprisoned for refusing to collaborate with the British. Fascinated by the tale and the priest's proud character, he made it the focus of his third novel, Arrow of God (1964). Some critics regard this as Achebe's greatest achievement, with its complex structure and characterisation, and its interrogation of the interstices between subjective desire and external forces in the making of history.

The concerns with responsible leadership that inform Arrow of God are taken up more explicitly in his satirical fourth novel, A Man of the People (1966). It exposes the corruption and irresponsibility of politicians and their constituents, ending with a military coup – as indeed happened in post-independence Nigeria in 1966, a coup that led to the attempted secession of Biafra and a civil war in which more than a million people died.

When the massacre of Igbos began in the north following the coup, Achebe was working for the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission in Lagos. Warned that he might be in danger (a cousin was one of the military leaders assassinated), Achebe took his family to eastern Nigeria. He became a strong advocate of Biafra's independence, travelling the world to seek support. In his view, Biafra was not only a territory that could ensure the survival of Igbo peoples, but also an ideal. Speaking in 1968, he declared: "Biafra stands for true independence in Africa, for an end to the 400 years of shame and humiliation which we have suffered in our association with Europe … I believe our cause is right and just. And this is what literature should be about today – right and just causes."

Although the war ended in defeat for the Biafran cause, Achebe was determined the Igbo presence and perspectives should continue within the Nigerian nation. His collection of poems Beware Soul Brother (1971) and the volume of short stories Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) drew on the experiences of the war. He became a senior research fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and in 1971 he and a group of Nigerian academics founded Okike, an important journal for African creative writing and critical debate. He also wrote several books for children.

In 1972, Achebe accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he taught African literature and continued to edit Okike. It was there that I first met him and worked as an assistant editor for Okike. I also attended and occasionally co-taught his course on African writing, and admired his patience with students who sometimes made all too evident their ignorance and prejudice with regard to African culture.

That tolerance, and indeed friendship, extended to colleagues such as a professor who jokingly promised to provide native girls for all the members of his department when he became head. I looked across at Achebe and saw him raise an eyebrow. Despite his passionate condemnation of racism and imperial arrogance, it is Achebe's gentle irony, ready laughter and his delight in anecdotes about our children's antics that I most vividly remember.

He did not retreat from controversy. In essays, lectures and interviews, he declared the need for committed writing in the African context, and derided writers and critics whose attitudes to Africans he found condescending or racist. At the University of Massachusetts, he denounced Heart of Darkness in a lecture that caused many in the audience to walk out in protest, and still arouses debate.

Achebe returned to Nigeria in 1976 to be professor of literature at the University of Nigeria, where he continued to teach, became chairman of the Association of Nigerian Writers and edited Uwa ndi Igbo, the Journal of Igbo Life and Culture. He was also elected deputy national president of the People's Redemption party and published a political pamphlet, The Trouble With Nigeria, in 1983.

Achebe not only created a new kind of novel, but was also unwilling to repeat the same formula. Each novel set up a dialogue with its predecessor, technically and formally as well as with regard to character and social milieu. This process culminated in his fifth novel, Anthills of the Savannah (1987), which commented on the forms and themes of his own works and those of other African writers. The novel insists there is no one story of the nation, but a multiplicity of narratives, weaving continuities between past and present, Igbo and English cultural forms and traditions. The philosophy, structure and aesthetic of Anthills of the Savannah, and indeed of all of Achebe's fiction, is summarised in the final sentences of his essay The Truth of Fiction: "Imaginative literature … does not enslave; it liberates the mind of man. Its truth is not like the canons of orthodoxy or the irrationality of prejudice and superstition. It begins as an adventure in self-discovery and ends in wisdom and humane conscience."

In 1990, a car accident left Achebe paralysed. Bard College, New York, offered him and Christie the possibility of teaching there and provided the facilities he needed. Now using a wheelchair, he continued to travel and lecture in the US and occasionally abroad. His talks at Harvard in 1998 were published under the title Home and Exile.

His more recent lectures and autobiographical essays were published in The Education of a British-Protected Child (2009). He moved to Providence, Rhode Island, in 2009 after being appointed professor of Africana studies at Brown University. In 2012 he published There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, which reiterated his belief in the ideals that had inspired the nationalism of his younger days. His account of the events that led to the civil war, its conduct and aftermath have stirred strong reactions from supporters as well as opponents of the Biafran cause.

Achebe received numerous awards and more than 30 honorary doctorates, but among the tributes he may have valued most was Nelson Mandela's. "There was a writer named Chinua Achebe," Mandela wrote, "in whose company the prison walls fell down."

He is survived by Christie, their daughters, Chinelo and Nwando, and their sons, Ikechukwu and Chidi.

• Chinua Achebe, writer, born 16 November 1930; died 21 March 2013

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/22/chinua-achebe-wole-soyinka-jp-clark?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Chinua Achebe's death: we have lost a brother

Chinua was a man of resilient will. His works are testimony to the domination of the human spirit over the forces of repression


Wole Soyinka and JP Clark
guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 March 2013 15.23 EDT
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The Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82. Photograph: Mike Cohea/AP

For us, the loss of Chinua Achebe is, above all else, intensely personal. We have lost a brother, a colleague, a trailblazer and a doughty fighter. Of the "pioneer quartet" of contemporary Nigerian literature, two voices have been silenced – one, of the poet Christopher Okigbo, and now, the novelist Chinua Achebe. It is perhaps difficult for outsiders of that intimate circle to appreciate this sense of depletion, but we take consolation in the young generation of writers to whom the baton has been passed, those who have already creatively ensured that there is no break in the continuum of the literary vocation.

We need to stress this at a critical time of Nigerian history, where the forces of darkness appear to overshadow the illumination of existence that literature represents. These are forces that arrogantly pride themselves implacable and brutal enemies of what Chinua and his pen represented, not merely for the African continent, but for humanity. Indeed, we cannot help wondering if the recent insensate massacre of Chinua's people in Kano, only a few days ago, hastened the fatal undermining of that resilient will that had sustained him so many years after his crippling accident.

No matter the reality, after the initial shock, and a sense of abandonment, we confidently assert that Chinua lives. His works provide their enduring testimony to the domination of the human spirit over the forces of repression, bigotry and retrogression.

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But they are here attacking southwest? The internet warriors are here attacking southwest while the aboki man continue to roast their brothers up north.

Cowards!.

Why don't you first find out how many SWners were also killed. The bus was headed to Lagos, remember?

Tolexander: This Nwazurike guy seems be intellectually deficient!

Though he made a nice statement of not condoling (condoning) reprisal.

With such grammatical blunder, you are indeed an intellectual ''giant''
Condoling ko!!!

KANO BOMBING: I packed my intestines with my cloth – Survivor

Headlines Wednesday, March 20, 2013


Thirty seven-year-old severely burnt Emmanuel Bassey lies in a hospital bed at Murtala Mohammed Specialist hospital in northern Nigeria’s largest city of Kano on March 19, 2013. Two suicide bombers rammed their car into a bus loaded with passengers at the bus station, killing at least 22 people and injuring 65 others, the following explosions burnt five buses. AFP PHOTO

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By AbdulSalam Muhammad

KANO-As Nigerians continued to express outrage over Monday's suicide bombing at a bus park in Kano which claimed over 60 lives, survivours of the bomb attack, yesterday on their hospital beds, recounted their harrowing experiences and agony, saying they saw death.

Abdullahi Maiagogo Gayawa, a 70 year-old wrist watch seller who was affected by the blast said: "I was at the motor park as usual for a routine business when in a middle of the transaction, I heard a loud bang that sent me sprawling on the ground.

Initially, I could not comprehend what happened but rose and took to my heels only to notice that my stomach was ripped open,with my intestines gorging out.

I quickly packed my intestines with my cloth and was trying to escape from the scene when suddenly I woke up in the hospital surrounded by a team of medical doctors".

We saw death - Survivors

The Septuagenarian, looking frail and worn out told Vanguard on his sick bed: "I saw death at a close range and I had almost given up hope of living but all praises to Allah for His intervention.

Gayawa further explained that "as you can see I am still active and I struggle hard to feed my family and this particular motor park where the incident occurred is my place of business and I had been getting serious patronage from the travelers."

In the stretch of my life spanning seven decades, I have never seen this kind of trouble, the bang was so loud that I saw many going down, covered with their blood and the wailing that followed was such that I thought the end of time has come".

Another lucky survivor, Magawata Goje, 45, told Vanguard on his sick bed thus: "I was inside the Lagos-bound luxury bus when the blast occurred. I was seated at the back seat, and it was Allah that understands how I survived the blast.

"I heard people saying that I was dead because I was covered with blood and I could see a lot of people in comatose position and I had to raise my hand to draw the attention of the rescuers before they attended to me. Goje who sustained second degree burns then appealed for quick intervention of government to save his life.

In pains, he struggled to raise his burnt neck and hand and looked through the window pointing at where his children and members of his family were anxiously waiting and monitoring his health from the sideline. "Look at my wife and children watching from outside and you can imagine what will become of their lives if adequate measure is not taken to save my life".

Also speaking to Vanguard in the same vein, Hamisu Usman, another survivor, told Vanguard that "I was in a Port Harcourt-bound bus when a blast ripped through, and the rest I knew was that I found myself in the hospital where the doctor was telling me to remain calm".

I spoke with the suicide bomber before he struck -Emmanuel Bassey, 40 years old tout.

In his account, Emmanuel Bassey, a 40-year-old bus park tout who survived the blast revealed to Vanguard his encounter with the suicide bomber before he struck.

Bassey who claimed to work for Ezewanta Group of Motors stated that "the guy came in a blue Golf car, I could recall that he was dark in complexion and appeared to be in his mid 30's. He was calm during my brief interaction with him and did not look harmful. I asked him where he was going, and he said, 'I have not decided', and in no time some of my colleagues at the park were rushing towards him and suddenly he sped off, applied brake close to a loaded vehicle and in a twinkle of an eye, I heard a loud bang that sent me sprawling on the ground", Bassey explained.

He revealed that four of his colleagues who were running after him to ascertain which part of the southern part of the country he wanted to go all died on the spot due to the impact of the blast.

Bassey who suffered second degree burns cried out: "Men, I saw hell and believed that I was going to die before some good Samaritan brought me to the hospital.

Bassey lost his skin and his stomach was ripped open by the blast but has undergone several procedures and appeared to be in a stable condition. Bassey who complained of excessive heat on his sick bed displayed a deep hole on his stomach saying: "I was simply not lucky on the day of carnage but all the same I give glory to God that I am alive but I hope government will do their best to bring the perpetrators to book".

In the meantime, Kano State Government has offered to foot the medical expenses of those affected by the blast.

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the Acting Governor gave the assurance in Kano shortly after paying a visit to the injured victims at the MurtalaMuhammadSpecialistHospital, Kano.

"The carnage perpetrated by whoever is behind this is totally condemnable, this is not religion, and definitely this is not the teaching of Islam. It is there for everyone to see and it remains the basic truth", Ganduje stressed.

http://odili.net/news/source/2013/mar/20/336.html

c.fours:
^ lol rotfl

let me go and check the statistics of how many Americans are fleeing their country due to "hot competition"
if things are good for you, it is others that will be flocking to you. not vice versa.

and let's just assume there is so called hot competition in iboland. for people to prefer to live in boko haram areas than live in the east should say something about the state of that region. it means, folks will rather die in the north than move back to the east!
orishirishi

Like your folks trouping from SW, with all its milk and honey, to London to beg for social safety net and deprive citizens of their dues. What does Lagos govt offer those Igbos? Nothing. Instead they take from them and close their bizs at will. Also I guess yorubas do not live in the North and East and SS. You are an ugly baboon, like Obj/Tinubu/Fasola.

After several decades of Igbos investing heavily in Yorubaland, Yoruba investors make first major investment in Igboland

This is newsworthy item. Slowly they will make the same level of inroad in Igboland as Igbos have made in their land. They are welcome to come compete. Let teh best man win.

Now we have something (hopefully more will come) to hold on to should dey do any sme sme with our 50% investment in Lagos, Abeokuta and Ibadan. grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

See owners of Portland

http://www.portlandpaintsng.com/our_team.html


Portland Paints commissions new factory in Awka
Thursday, 07 March 2013 00:00 Modestus Anaesoronye
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Determined to reach its client base in the eastern part of the country, paint manufacturing giant, Portland Paints &Products Nigeria plc has commissioned a state of the art factory in Awka, Anambra State.

The factory which has computerised production, delivers outstanding paint finishes in a wide range of colours with over 15, 000 options, colour (s) choice mixed in two minutes while customers can also create their own colours.

Portland said the factory offers great value incomparable to anyone around because of its high coverage capacity.

With its opening in Awka, all users of decorative paints, including painters, architects, decorators, home owners and all individual customers, will enjoy a full range of exceptional benefits including highest standards of customer satisfaction, washable finish, quick drying, colour retention as well as easy application.

The services is accompanied by extra value , as there would be free insurance cover in the Portland Mutual Extra (with Mutual Benefits Assurance) to cover burglary, fire and break-in for purchases in excess of: N30,000 for Tenants providing insurance cover up to N1m for 1 Year; and N300, 000 for Landlords to providing insurance cover of up to N4m for 1 Year.

The state of the art factory which is known as “Sandtex Paint Colour Boutique” is located on, Zik Avenue, Agu-Awka Industrial Layout, Awka, Anambra State, which provides great accessibility for customers within and outside the metropolis.

The Colour Boutique was commissioned by Emeka Ndubuisi Sibeudu, deputy governor of Anambra State who was represented by chairman, Anambra State Branch of Architects, Peter Okpala.

“We look forward to serving Nigerians and our esteemed customers in the East, while partnering with them for a more colourful life and more profitable business,” the company’s management assured.

“We are an exceptional company aiming at adding value, comfort and colour to our environment with our high class experts in all our departments. This makes us a dominant player in our line of business”.

Portland Paints & Products Nig. plc is a leader in the Nigerian paints Industry. The Company was incorporated as a Limited Liability Company on 3rd September 1985 and became a Public Company on 3rd April 2008 and was listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Thursday 9th July 2009.

PointB: Nice one.

That's some savvy SW business men.

Learning from the Igbos in Lagos

Okay!! I forgot. Glo dey alaigbo too and may be a number of purely SW-owned banks like Wema and Sky and FCMB

After several decades of Igbos investing heavily in Yorubaland, Yoruba investors make first major investment in Igboland

This is newsworthy item. Slowly they will make the same level of inroad in Igboland as Igbos have made in their land. They are welcome to come compete. Let teh best man win.

Now we have something (hopefully more will come) to hold on to should dey do any sme sme with our 50% investment in Lagos, Abeokuta and Ibadan.

See owners of Portland

http://www.portlandpaintsng.com/our_team.html


Portland Paints commissions new factory in Awka
Thursday, 07 March 2013 00:00 Modestus Anaesoronye
E-mail Print PDF

Determined to reach its client base in the eastern part of the country, paint manufacturing giant, Portland Paints &Products Nigeria plc has commissioned a state of the art factory in Awka, Anambra State.

The factory which has computerised production, delivers outstanding paint finishes in a wide range of colours with over 15, 000 options, colour (s) choice mixed in two minutes while customers can also create their own colours.

Portland said the factory offers great value incomparable to anyone around because of its high coverage capacity.

With its opening in Awka, all users of decorative paints, including painters, architects, decorators, home owners and all individual customers, will enjoy a full range of exceptional benefits including highest standards of customer satisfaction, washable finish, quick drying, colour retention as well as easy application.

The services is accompanied by extra value , as there would be free insurance cover in the Portland Mutual Extra (with Mutual Benefits Assurance) to cover burglary, fire and break-in for purchases in excess of: N30,000 for Tenants providing insurance cover up to N1m for 1 Year; and N300, 000 for Landlords to providing insurance cover of up to N4m for 1 Year.

The state of the art factory which is known as “Sandtex Paint Colour Boutique” is located on, Zik Avenue, Agu-Awka Industrial Layout, Awka, Anambra State, which provides great accessibility for customers within and outside the metropolis.

The Colour Boutique was commissioned by Emeka Ndubuisi Sibeudu, deputy governor of Anambra State who was represented by chairman, Anambra State Branch of Architects, Peter Okpala.

“We look forward to serving Nigerians and our esteemed customers in the East, while partnering with them for a more colourful life and more profitable business,” the company’s management assured.

“We are an exceptional company aiming at adding value, comfort and colour to our environment with our high class experts in all our departments. This makes us a dominant player in our line of business”.

Portland Paints & Products Nig. plc is a leader in the Nigerian paints Industry. The Company was incorporated as a Limited Liability Company on 3rd September 1985 and became a Public Company on 3rd April 2008 and was listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Thursday 9th July 2009.

After several decades of Igbos investing heavily in Yorubaland, Yoruba investors make first major investment in Igboland

This is newsworthy item. Slowly they will make the same level of inroad in Igboland as Igbos have made in their land.

Now we have something to hold on to should dey do any sme sme with our 50% investment in Lagos, Abeokuta and Ibadan.

Owners of Portland

http://www.portlandpaintsng.com/our_team.html

He was pardoned by the council of state which comprises 36 states governors (including ACN governors) and ex-heads of state.

So far, I have not heard FASOLA (and other opposition governors) protest the pardon yet

http://odili.net/news/source/2013/mar/5/332.html

Lagos: 2 Suspects docked for attempted kidnap


BY ONOZURE DANIA

LAGOS-A 40-year-old- man, Tunde Oyeshola and one other, were arraigned yesterday for attempting to kidnap one Mrs Modupe Adeniyi.

Oyeshola and Shitta Garuba 27, who were arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates Court, are facing a two-count charge on conspiracy and attempted kidnap.

They were said to have committed the offence on February 23, 2013 at about 8am at Iju area of Lagos.

The police prosecutor, assistant superintendant of police, Barth Nwaokoye, told the court that the said offence was committed at 11b Ojo Alao street Iju Lagos state.

Nwaokoye, also said that Adeniyi, is a wife of one Professor Peter Adeniyi.

According to him, the offence is punishable under section 409 and 405 of the criminal laws of Lagos state of Nigeria 2011.

However, when the charge was read to the defendants, they pleaded not guilty.

Magistrate Demi Ajayi, granted them bail in the sum of N800,000, with two sureties in like sum, stressing that the sureties should be at least 40-years-old.

Ajayi adjourned the matter to April 10, 2013.

Eko Ile: Dumb skull,Osun is primarily an Agric state and the state doesn't run or manage itself, they have civil service, they have commercial activities from tailors, to taxi drivers to mechanics to office workers, accountants, doctors, nurses, lawyers and so on..

Do you really think osun people keep their money and do their banking inside their bedroom and they even buy and sell inside their parlor.

Empty heads and comedians like you shouldn't have access to the internet..

This is dumb. Other states do not have those things and more?

.Garri (x7):
Why are some mischievous elements fighting over the progress of Osun State??

Are you saddened that a Governor is‎​ making progress in tackling unemployment??

Or are you jealous that such report didn't come from AlaIgbo??

Sure! He is tackling unemployment on the pages of newspapers

See! The Yoruba hate OBJ because he did not behave like a typical Yorubaman: grab everything for the Yoruba like Awo did after the war.
If Obj had given them everything to the detriment of other groups, he would have been a ''good'' Yoruba man.

Obasanjo, cause of Yoruba marginalisation – Alaafin of Oyo

News Tuesday, March 5, 2013


*Olusegun Obasanjo

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By OLA AJAYI

IBADAN - ALAAFIN of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has said the marginalisation of the Yorubas being alleged by some elders in the zone was caused by the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

It will be recalled that recently, the Yoruba Unity Forum alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan marginalised the zone in the distribution of political offices.

Oba Adeyemi, who received former Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin, who was on a sympathy visit to his palace over the fire incident in some parts of the palace, said the eight year rule of Obasanjo was not beneficial in any way to Yoruba people.

According to him, Obasanjo's eight year rule never ensured a succession policy for the Yorubas, instead, the former president paid mere lip service to issues that could assist the cause of the Yorubas.

He called on Yoruba politicians to guard jealously the cultural heritage of Yoruba nation, warning that Yoruba language and culture could go into extinction because parents no longer teach their children local language and culture.

Calling for the restoration of Yoruba history in school curricula, he said that the race had succeeded in many areas.

Earlier, Folarin sympathised with the Alaafin on the fire incident, thanking God that there was no casualty.

He apologised for his late visit to the monarch, saying it due to ill-health.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/obasanjo-cause-of-yoruba-marginalisation-alaafin/

Eko Ile: Illiterate, Osun is not an industrial state so what are they going to do with industrial workforce. Industries are not the only source of employment olodo.

where are the banks. where are the shops. where is the source of employment? U hediot.

3% unemployement in osun is a big fat lie.where are the industries in osun? Fake data as usual.

seanet01: Keep dreaming.

You see wetin your baboon brother Obj cause?

Afam4eva: Fashola's best bet will be to go to the senate. I just hope he's not from Erelu's constituency. Fashola's chances of being presented as a president or vice-presidential candiate is zero because APC will most likely present a northern candidate and a southern vice. I'm not sure if they'll go for a Yoruba vice but even if they do, Fashola is out because the he's a moslem and the candiate from the north is most likely gonna be a muslim too.

Dont bet on luck. Fasola can easily convert to Christianity to be able to satisfy his selfish aim. After all Yoruba Muslims are considered flimsy and fake by their Northern counterparts.

These Obas are some of the most corrupt and maddest black people in the world

Another royal father has gone mad again

by Niyi Akinnaso (niyi@comcast.net)


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The devaluation of the Yoruba monarchy has reached unprecedented heights, and the earlier the problem was addressed, the better for the institution and for the Yoruba nation. Where else would the locus of tradition and custom be found if not in the palace? The devaluation of the Yoruba monarchy dates back to colonial times, when Obas were placed on salaries according to a hierarchy established by the colonial government. Worse still, no one became an Oba until the staff of office was presented by the government. What is unprecedented is the current manifestation of the devaluation by recalcitrant Obas, who violate both traditional norms and the rule of law.

The present trend first attracted public attention in 2010, when the first royal replay of Ola Rotimi's "Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again" was staged in public glare at Akure, the Ondo State capital. In Rotimi's hilarious comedy, a half-witted Lejoka-Brown, a former military Major, who could hardly maintain his household, took to politics, hoping to become a minister in the Nigerian government. On one occasion, when he and one of his wives were chasing each other around the compound, another wife took to her heels, shouting: "Our husband has gone mad again". As the play unravelled, it became evident that Lejoka-Brown's political plans had also fallen apart.

The deposed Deji of Akure, Oba Oluwadare Adesina, played Lejoka-Brown more than five times over during his tumultuous four-year reign. He could neither maintain his household nor his relationship with his chiefs and his subjects. He not only ran amuck with his first wife, he also held his community to ransom, by flouting traditional rites, by grabbing the people's land, and by repeatedly tramping on their civic rights. After chasing his eldest wife out of the palace in the company of a junior wife, and throwing hot acidic ashes on her in public glare, he was eventually banished from the throne by the Ondo State government, after a thorough investigation of his activities on the throne.

Another version of royal madness has been playing in Igburowo town in Odigbo Local Government of Ondo State, where the Akamuja, Oba Akinfesola Adewola, has been suspended from the throne for allegedly perpetrating various atrocities in the community, including fraud, forceful acquisition of land, frivolous litigation over his subject's property, assaulting his chiefs, and failing to perform traditional rites.

The suspension of the monarch by the state government followed mass protests by the people of the community, who had chased him and his family out of the palace, by forcing them to trek barefooted several kilometres away from the palace. It was a modern replay of an age-old abomination by which an Oba was forced to abdicate the throne.

What is worrisome about these cases is that they now appear to represent a trend - the "internal devaluation" of the throne; that is, the denigration of the throne by the incumbents themselves, as opposed to "external devaluation" by outside influences, particularly politicians. Yes, the colonial government initiated the subjugation of the throne under the new political order. But it reached alarming heights during the hey day of regional politics in the old Western Region, when the leaders of the Action Group and the Nigerian National Democratic Party took turns in deposing, banishing, removing, or reducing the salaries of, many an Oba in the region, usually for supporting the opposition political party.

True, the erosion of values has diffused from the political to the traditional institutions, but some Obas now appear to be in the forefront of the denigration of the royal institution. Just as politicians sidetrack the constitution, disregard the rule of law, and use thugs to maim opponents and rig elections, so do some Obas fail to perform appropriate rituals, disregard tradition, and use thugs to harass their subjects.

Understandably, today's Obas should not be expected to reproduce the crown exactly like their predecessors, not just because times have changed, but also because the royal candidates have also changed. Many an Oba today had reached the pinnacle of their professional careers and developed business and political networks from which they could not be expected to sever ties after ascending the throne. It is a different problem, however, when some Obas fail to reconcile their position with the rule of law.

That's what makes two recent alleged royal rape cases highly sensational. One involves the Olusupare of Supare-Akoko in Ondo State, Oba Kasali Adejoro, who was charged to court for allegedly attempting to rape a woman. The other involves the Alowa of Ilowa-Ijesa in Obokun Local Government of Osun State, Oba Adebukola Alli, who raped a 23-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corps, boasting "We both enjoyed it".

With these cases, we have come full circle with the denigration of the Yoruba throne. It would be unfortunate if other Obas in the region remained aloof. The truth is that these cases also rub off on them. An immediate rescue plan has become necessary to restore the sanctity of the throne. The historical role of the monarchy as the political and moral anchor of Yoruba tradition should not be sidelined like the Odu Ifa corpus, which provided a literary archive of Yoruba philosophical, etiological, ethical, and medicinal practices. True, the adoption of Christianity and Islam played a major role in the denigration of Ifa. However, the Yoruba monarchy is equally culpable for its neglect of traditional rituals, including Ifa divination. Yet, Ifa was among the cultural practices that enhanced the survival of the Yoruba nation during slavery, as evidenced today in Cuba and Brazil.

The critical question now is: What do you do? First, leading Obas in Yorubaland should bury their political and personal differences and come together to re-examine their institution in the light of the developments discussed above. The onus here falls especially on the shoulders of the Ooni of Ife, the Alaafin of Oyo, the Awujale of Ijebu-Ode, the Alake of Egba-land, the Deji of Akure, and the Osemawe of Ondo. These are highly travelled Obas, who expand royal splendour beyond our shores. Their job would be hypocritical if they continue to ignore the denigration of the monarchy at home.

Second, an independent body of Yoruba historians, culture experts, educators, and informed elders is needed to look critically into the institution of the monarchy and its role in a constitutional democracy. Such a body must pay attention to the processes by which new Obas emerge and to the proliferation of pseudo-monarchies by which Obas now exist in communities that never had one before.

Third, the Federal Government should collaborate with state Ministries of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to collate the findings and design an appropriate role for Obas that would block encroachment on their subjects' property and civil rights. If some Obas refuse to be civilised, it is high time civilisation was imposed on them.

http://odili.net/news/source/2013/feb/19/820.html

ilugunboy: Awwwww....Zik? you must be very young then...a President but not the C-I-C is what they termed ceremonial..go and read your history book.

We weren't even practicing this hue of democracy then...

Ironsi? give me a break pluzzzeeeeeee!

You are a joke.

Keep deceiving yourself. What does Nigeria's official record say about those two? Do you plan on erasing that record, seeing that you ngbatis can do anything, including sleeping with your mamas, to undermine Igbos.

ilugunboy: Yes, you are right with the bold...the chances of David Mark (an Idoma) becoming a President way before an Ibo is high..

Ode! Igbos got their presidents before your Yoruba ever dreamt of it. We are looking now for round three and rightly so,being the fathers of Nigeria.
Does President Zik and Head of State Ironsi mean anything to you?