shymmex: I could care less about bini and their stupid history... This stupid thread was created by an Igbo clown anyways..

Bini NEVER ruled over my people, period.. Claim your Eko (Lagos Island) which is less than 1/1000 of Lagos land mass... Ijebu people are proud people, and bini can't defeat us even in our sleep..

Bini history is overrated, and they're irrelevant to us.. They live in a landlocked state, and their only access to the see is through Itsekiri (Ijebu descent) land... Edo can go phuck itself in the arse for all I care.

you are fool,the ijaws and Itsekiri live in a place called gelegele close to benin city.



[b]Edo State Gele-Gele Seaport finally approved by FG
Posted by Owa Edo on May 18, 2011 at 11:35pm ■View My Blog



ABUJA — THE weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting Wednesday approved N23 billion for 10 various infrastructural projects in the nine states of the Niger Delta.

Minister of Information and Communication, Mr Labaran Maku and the Minister of National Planning, Samshudeen Usman, while briefing State House correspondents said the FEC, presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, after deliberations ratified the President’s anticipatory approval for the award of the 10 contracts.




Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, according to Maku, brought a memo to seek council’s ratification of the President’s anticipatory approval for the award of contracts in respect of three Land Reclamation and Erosion Control/Shoreline projects in the Niger Delta region.

According to him, “the Nigerian coastline has deteriorated over the years, the cumulative effect of which has undermined the quality of life in the region, threatened livelihood of the people, which has contributed to the restiveness experienced in the region in the recent past.

“The deterioration is attributable mainly to the fragile ecosystem of the region and the series of uncontrolled human activities including depletion of mangrove forests, oil exploration/exploitation, dredging/reclamation for estates developments, unplanned discharge of run-off and effluents into the water bodies.




“In order to achieve the current administration’s goal of transforming the region, council ratified the President’s anticipatory approval for the award of contracts in respect of three Land Reclamation and Erosion Control/Shoreline Projects in the Niger Delta region, in the total sum of N5.8 billion.

“Land Reclamation and Erosion Control Project at Essien Town, Ekorinin Community, Calabar, Cross Rive State, in the contract sum of N1.9 billion with a completion period of 12 months; Land Reclamation and Erosion Protection at Amadi Ama, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in the sum of N1.4 billion with a completion period of 12 months; Land Reclamation and Erosion Protection at Ogbobagbene, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, in favour of Messrs Snecou Group of Companies Ltd in the total contract sum of N2.4 billion with a completion period of 12 months.

“The Minister of Niger Delta presented another memo to seek Council’s approval for the augmentation of the contract sum in respect of the Dualisation of the 99km East-West Road, Section III (Port Harcourt Eleme Junction – Eket) in Rivers/Akwa Ibom states.

Council approved an augmentation of the contract sum for the ddualisation of 99kmEast_West Road, Section III (Port Harcourt (Eleme Junction?) – Eket) in Rivers/Akwa Ibom states, in favour of Messrs Reynolds Construction Company (Nig.) Ltd., in the sum of N30 billion to a revised contract sum of N66.8 billion with a new completion date of 31st December 2012.

The dualisation of 99km East_West Road, Section III (Port Harcourt (Eleme Junction?) – Eket) is a major federal government intervention infrastructural development programme in the Niger Delta Region awarded at the original contract sum of N35 billion.




The need to revise the contract sum by the contractor arose from the passage of time, high rate of inflation, compensation costs, re_design to accommodate topography in marshy terrain, community relation challenges and advance payment delay.

The contract for the dualisation East_West Road, Section IV: Eket_Oron Road in Akwa Ibom State was originally awarded on 13th September 2006 in the sum of N26 billion.

The need for the augmentation of contract sum was presented to council by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs following the increases in construction materials and labour.

In order to uphold the federal government’s commitment to the development of infrastructure in the Niger Delta Region, council approved an augmentation of the contract sum for the 50km dualisation East_West Road, Section IV (Eket_Oron) in Akwa Ibom State, in the sum of N11.5 billion only to a revised contract sum of N37. 5 billion with a new completion date of 11th June 2012.

Through yet another memo, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs South Council’s ratification of the President’s anticipatory approval for the award of contracts for the construction of Emakalakala_Akipelai Road and Bridges in Bayelsa State and for the Design of Seaport Development at Gelegele in Edo State.




These contracts are part of Post_Amnesty Intervention Programmes of the Federal Government designed to facilitate the rapid economic development of the Niger Delta region.

After deliberations, council ratified the President’s anticipatory approval for the award of: Contract for the construction of Emakalakala_Akipelai Roads and Bridges in Bayelsa State, in the sum of N3.3 billion with a completion period of 15 months; and(b) Contract for the consultancy services for the design Seaport Development at Gelegele in Edo State, in the sum of N224.9 million with a completion period of six months.


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i think there is another port in lushi or agnebode i think?.

oshiohole is really trying.

oshiomhole roads.

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It's obvious that you're having a laugh with those pictures. Development indeed.

As my Igbo bros will say: Ya nimesis will kash up to you. [/quote

you are too full of hate..

where is ekiti project?
http://www.ekiti.com/index.php

ekiti state

http://www.ekiti.com/index.php

Mimiko’s beautification programmes turn Akure to a modern city and other project in ondo.

ekt_bear: Afanna, I am not seeing drainage on these streets in Edo you are posting. Is this just the camera, and the drainage does exist..?

i can,t answer that i am not the gov,some of his roads do i think.

http://oshiomholefor2012.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108&Itemid=540

Flood & Erosion-Drainage Structures/Roads

(In collaboration with ministry of works to provide holistic solution to infrastructure problems)

PROJECT
LOCATIONS REMARKS

Study, Design and Construction of roads and drainage structures at Benin City
Constain Isinorho Rd and environs, including the adjoining 4th, 5th and 6th Guobadia lanes and Oni lane)
Benin City Project completed and commissioned on July 30, 2010 Benin City

Study, Design & construction of fiood and Erosion Control structures Benin City and associated road works and beautification at Uselu Five- junction &
environs including; Midwest St.,lheya St., Iheya Lane.,3rd Cementry Rd.,
Ivbiye St., Ivbiye ~ne,Uwa St.,Oro st. ,and Wire Rd, Urubi St.,
Uselu-Lagos Rd., and West Circular Rds Spurs
Benin City
Ivbiye Lane,Uwa St.,Oro st. ,and Wire Rd, Urubi St.,Uselu-Lagos Rd., and West Circular Rds Spurs Benin CIty Ongoing
Study, Design, & Construction of Roads and Drainage structures and dualization of Siluko Phase-I- up to Textile Mill Road Junction
Benin City Ongoing
The Storm water master plan-design of roads and fiood/Erosion Control Structures for Benin city

http://oshiomholefor2012.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102&Itemid=495

gov oshiomhole..

still on oshiomhole.

jigawa

jigawa is getting there..

http://www.jigawastate.gov.ng/staticpage.php?id=77
http://www.jigawastate.gov.ng/staticpage.php?id=101

httphttp://www.jigawastate.gov.ng/staticpage.php?id=100://www.jigawastate.gov.ng/staticpage.php?id=153

blocker: IN TERMS OF LATE PAYMENT OF SALARIES, SACKING OF NON-INDIGENOUS NIGERIANS FROM THE CIVIL SERVICE, DIRTY ENVIRONMENT, BAD ROAD MAINTENANCE, LOOTING OF TREASURY, INSTITUTIONALISING OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR'S MOTHER OR SON, HIGHEST DEBT PROFILE AMONG STATES SINCE 1991 (CHECK THE STATISTICS BUREAU, LACK OF GOVERNMENT INFRASTURURAL DEVELOPMENT, BANK ROBBERY (LEADING TO NUMEROUS STRIKES BY BANKS - CAUSING A NEW NATIONAL RECORD OF TRANSPORTING MONEY VIA HELICOPTER & CAUSING PEOPLE TO VISIT OTHER BANKS FROM NEIGHBOURING STATES, UNFORTUNATELY SOME OF THEM ON RETURN WERE ATTACKED BY THE SAME ROBBERS WHO FORCED THEM TO FLEE), KIDNAPPING IN EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS, REMEBER "OSISI KA NKWU" (CAUSING PEOPLE TO ABANDON HOMES & BUSINESSES AND BECOME REFUGEES IN NEARBY STATES), EVEN THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE HAD TO MOVE TENT TO THE STATE AS A RESULT. A STATE GOVERNED BY A MAN WHO WON ELECTIONS (COURTESY OF HIS PREDECESSOR) WHILE STILL IN PRISON AND WAS RELEASED ON BAIL, SUBSEQUENTLY SWORN IN AS GOVERNOR AND BECAUSE OF IMMUNITY CLAUSE CANNOT BE TOUCHED. A SITTING GOVERNOR WHO IS CONSTANTLY PELTED WITH SATCHET WATER AND ABUSED ANYDAY HE VISITS THE STATES LARGEST TOWN (NOT THE CAPITAL). A GOVERNOR WHOSE FIRST SON IS SO POWERFUL THAT DUO HAS AQUIRED NEARLY ALL THE VALUABLE PROPERTY IN THE STATE BY CHANCE OR COERSION.I CAN GO ON AND ON ABOUT THE STATE AND ITS GOVERNOR (CURRENTLY ON HIS 2ND TERM) BUT I WILL BORE NAIRALAND VIEWS TO DEATH. THE STATE IS ABIA AND ITS GOVERNOR IS T.A ORJI (T FOR THIEF, A FOR ARMROBBER)ORJI NA IM PAPA NAME.

Abia gov don suffer for una hand lol.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/newsextra/47705-abia-rebuilds-infrastructure.html

oshiomhole handwork.

more from oshiomhole

oshiomohole roads..

jigawa housing

13volts: Jigawa State for sure.

* HOUSING. I was allocated a three bedroom flat with a minimum deposit of 450k, am expected to pay the total sum of 3.5million naira in 15 years. Many youth and less privilege civil servants have also benefited.
* ROAD NETWORK. All the local government areas are linked wit a Road network as superb as that of Abuja. All major towns from Hadejia, Birnnkudu, Gumel, Ringim have excellent road network.
* EDUCATION. Birnnkudu school of nursey one of the best in the federation. Every year more than 200 students sent aboard to study medicine. Primary and secondary schools renovated. Jigawa State NYSC orientation camp the best in the federation.

the gov is really trying....
more gov oshiomohole.

For rural developement i think its oshiomohole
lagos,rivers and akwa ibom govs are doing good too but their state income is bigger than edo, jigawa,etc.
Ekiti state gov is comming up
imo gov is trying too..
What is the new Bayelsa gov doing? no news yet from him..

i will give it to oshiomhole and Jigawa state gov
http://www.jigawastate.gov.ng/innerhomepage.php?id=183
http://www.edostate.gov.ng/node
http://oshiomholefor2012.com/

[b]Ayatutu Ka Uno? Ka Se!


The Tiv people from the middle-belt region of Nigeria in West Africa can be found along Latitude 6 degrees 30 minutes to 8 degrees North and Longitude 8 degrees to 10 degrees East of the equator. The Tiv people are said to have originated from south-central Africa, with over 20 generations recorded from Tiv himself to the present. Although time has obscured the exact dates of the landmarks that make Tiv history, colonial historians made efforts to tally times with significant events that make the history of a nation factual. For example, evangelists have revealed that the migration of Tiv from the southern part of Central Africa began around 1800. By 1850 Tiv descendants were seen in large numbers in the south of what we now know as River Benue.


The Tiv people are in every country of the world, but mainly in Benue, Taraba, Nassarawa and Plateau State in Nigeria, West Africa. The Tiv, who are mostly agrarian farmers numbered more than 2,2m in the 1991 census. Their language is also Tiv and, even though the states mentioned above are ruled by political state governors, their paramount ruler is the Tor Tiv.


Tiv are speakers of a “Bantu related language”. Their early history is covered by three theories of origin. These are the Creation, Bantu and Family theories of origin. The outline of the Tiv Creation theory attributes the creation of the world (tar) to God (Aondo). In Tiv mythology, Aondo (God) had created the world and settled closer to it until He was hit with a pestle by a woman who was pounding food. In response, He moved into the skies (kwav Aondo), which are his present abode. Though there are different versions of the creation theory, and there does not seem to be any particular sequence in the creation process, in at least, one version, Takuruku rather than Aondo is argued to have been responsible for creation. In all the versions however, Swem is identified as the “place” of “creation”.


Language Classification:


Tiv language is classified under the the Tiv-Bantu (sub-group) of the Bantoid branch of the Benue-Congo subdivision of Niger-Congo.


Tiv Administration:


'The local community, called a ‘tar’, "is a patri-local clan community, typically a localized patri-lineage, composed of closely related patri-families. The community (tar) is typically equated with a minimal lineage (ipaven)." (Murdock 1958: Each community is a neighbourhood of compounds, and each compound contains an extended family. The compounds are scattered over the countryside. In modern politics and administration, the Tiv are headed by a Tor-Tiv with lower Chiefs in a sequence of hierarchies across the entire Tivland. Tthe current Tor-Tiv is Orchiviligh (HRH) Alfred Akawe Torkula


Tiv Major Occupation:


Agriculture (subsistence farming) with yams, sorghum, and bulrush millet as major crops and sweet potatoes, taro, manioc, peanuts, maize, and earth peas, along with the garden crops of squash, beans, okra, peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Recently introduced cash crops are sesame, rice, and soy beans. Goats, sheep, and chickens are numerous.


Tiv Marriage System:


Ya Ngyor (exchange of sisters) was abolished in 1927 and replaced by Kem (substantial or cumulative bride-price); although elopement still exists it happens but rarely.


Tiv Beliefs:


Major religion is Christianity (mainly Catholic and NKST) together with widespread belief in, and practice of, the archaic traditional religions of Akombo, Azov and Tsav.



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Tiv culture in picture.

[b]Tiv are an ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in South Africa. They constitute approximately 3.5% of Nigeria's total population, and number over 6 million individuals throughout Nigeria and Cameroon. The Tiv are the 4th largest ethnic group in Nigeria. Tiv language is spoken by about 7 million people in Nigeria, with a few speakers in Cameroon. Most of the language's Nigerian speakers are found in Benue State of Nigeria. The language is also widely spoken in the Nigerian States of Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa,cross rivers as well as the FCT Abuja. It is part of the Southern Bantoid Tivoid family, a branch of Benue-Congo and ultimately of the Niger-Congo phylum. In precolonial times, the Hausa ethnic group referred to the Tiv 'Munchi' a term not accepted by Tiv people. They depend on agricultural produce for commerce and life.


History

The Tiv came into contact with European culture during the colonial period. During November 1907 to spring 1908, an expedition of the Southern Nigeria Regiment led by Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Trenchard's came into contact with the Tiv. Trenchard brought gifts for the tribal chiefs. Subsequently, roads were built and trade links established between Europeans and the Tiv.[2]

[edit] Social and Political Organization

Most Tiv have a highly developed sense of genealogy, with descent being reckoned patrilineally. Ancestry is traced to an ancient individual named Tiv, who had two sons; all Tiv consider themselves a member either of Ichongo (descendants of son Chongo) or of Ipusu (descendants of son pusu). Ichongo and Ipusu are each divided into several major branches, which in turn are divided into smaller branches. The smallest branch, or minimal lineage, is the "ipaven". Members of an ipaven tend to live together, the local kin-based community being called the "tar". This form of social organization, called a segmentary lineage, is seen in various parts of the world, but it is particularly well known from African societies (Middleton and Tait 1958). The Tiv are the best known example from West Africa, as documented by Laura Bohannan (1952) and by Paul and Laura Bohannan (1953); in East Africa the best known example is the Nuer, documented by E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1940).

The Tiv had no administrative divisions and no chiefs or councils. Leadership was based on age, influence, and affluence. The leaders' functions were to furnish safe conduct, arbitrate disputes within their lineages, sit on moots, and lead their people in all external and internal affairs.

The Tiv ethnic group is the fourth largest Ethnic group in Nigeria after the three Major Ethnic groups.

These socio-political arrangements caused great frustration to British colonial attempts to subjugate the population and establish administration on the lower Benue. The strategy of Indirect Rule, which the British felt to be highly successful in controlling Hausa and Fulani populations in Northern Nigeria, was ineffective in a segmentary society like the Tiv (Dorward 1969). Colonial officers tried various approaches to administration, such as putting the Tiv under the control of the nearby Jukun, and trying to exert control through the councils of elders ("Jir Tamen"; these met with little success. The British administration in 1934 divided the Tiv into Clans, Kindreds, and Family Groups. The British appointed native heads of these divisions as well. These administrative divisions are gradually assuming a reality which they never had originally.

Members of the Tiv group are found in many areas across the globe, such as the United States and United Kingdom. In these countries they hold unions, known as MUT (Mzough U Tiv, which rhymes with Mutual Union of Tiv in English), where members can assemble and discuss issues concerning their people across the world, but especially back in Nigeria. The arm of the MUT serving the United States of America is known as MUTA (Mzough U Tiv ken Amerika, or Mutual Union of the Tiv in America), for instance.

Before the introduction of printed material, radio, film and television, mass communication in Nigeria was done through the indigenous people with the use of traditional political systems of communication. The rulers and the chiefs governed their ethnic communities and communicated with them through various channels.

[edit] Tiv Music and Communication

Locally made musical instruments were traditionally used for political and ceremonial communication. The key instruments follow/

[edit] Kakaki

This is an instrument used to convey specials messages to the people of the community, such messages as the newborn child of the King, his naming ceremony, the crowning of a new king, to gather people together during the marriage ceremony of the king and the king’s son’s marriage ceremony. This instrument was used to convey all the messages to the people to assemble at the square for the ceremony, as well as when there is an enemy attack on the community, a warning sound of the Kakaki is blown to alert those whom can defend the society and every citizen to be alert.

[edit] Ilyu

A light wooden instrument, it was used to pass messages to the people of the village, probably for the invitation of the people for a particular meeting of the elders at the king’s palace or for the people to gather at the market square for a message from or by the king.it is now used as an instrument to indicate the death of someone.

[edit] Indyer

A heavy wooden instrument carved out of mahogany trunk. It is used especially during festivals of masquerades, yam festivals with music to pass messages for the ceremonies, celebration of good harvest for the year.

[edit] Akya

It is used together with Agbande (drums) combined with Ageda at festivals to pass a message across to the people for a call for the display of culture.

[edit] Adiguve

It’s an instrument like a violin, used for music and dances in conjunction with Agbande (Agbande) at festivals and dance occasions, sometimes to announce the death of a leader or an elder of the community, during this period it is played sorrowfully for the mourning of the dead, most time it is played funerals.

[edit] Gbande

Agbande (plural), a set of crafted wooden musical instrument used to compliment agbande at festivals, this is particularly large and it is played by the young men of the community, the special drum beats communicates special messages and music for the festivals to come and during the festivals, for instance, signifies a royal occasions such as the coronation and funeral.

[edit] Ortindin (Ortyom)-Messenger

Usually he is chosen by the elders of the community to do errands for the elders and the leader of the community. He is sent out to the heads of the neighbouring families for a crucial meeting at the head of all the leaders of the community.

[edit] Kolugh ku Bua-Cow Horn

This is an instrument made out of cow horns, like in my community, there are farmers' associations that use this instrument when they have job to do, probably they are invite to make ridges on a piece of land, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the association will use this medium to wake up the members for the work they have for that day.

Indigenous communication is not only vertical, from the rulers to the subjects, it is also horizontal. Individuals communicate with society through physical and metaphysical means. A farm owner, for example, may mount a charm conspicuously on his farm in order to stress private ownership and to scare off human intruders.

The fear of herbalists and witches influences social behaviour considerably.

Rainmakers communicate their power to disrupt events through various psychological means. Village sectors in Africa communicate mostly via the market-place of ideas contributed by traditional religion, observances, divination, mythology, age-grades, the chiefs courts, the elder's square, secret and title societies, the village market square, the village drum(gbande) men, indeed the total experiences of the villager in his environment.

Unlike the mass media, access to the native media is culturally determined and not economic. Only the selected group of young men or the elders can disseminate information generally. The young only disseminate general information about events and the social welfare of their communities using the media mentioned above.

The Tiv people of Benue state still practise some of this traditional system of communication, using the KAKAIS, AGBANDE, INDYER, ADIGUVE and ILYU etc., nevertheless the increase in the western world media is threatening the cultural communication system.

Many of the communities in Benue state still use these instruments to convey messages to the people of their community, and it is helping a great deal, since there is a language barrier to the people with the introduction of the western world means of communication, using the western language (English) to convey information
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i found this....
http://www.beninculturalheritagecentre.org/projects-building.html

http://www.beninculturalheritagecentre.org/index-2.html

Omotola j Ekeinde and Stephanie okereke are both married to edo state men,they are both well behaved !