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The accident occurred Sunday morning, and most of the victims were youth members.

At least nine members of the Peoples Democratic Party, returning from the party’s special convention in Abuja, have died in a car accident along Abuja-Jos highway.

Immediate reports from Kafanchan in Kaduna state said about nine youth were confirmed dead after the bus they were travelling in was involved in a fatal car crash.

The Federal Road Safety Corp later confirmed the crash.

The FRSC said the accident about 38 km from kafanchan on the Kafanchan -Forest route, at past 8am on Sunday and that it involved two vehicles, a Volkswagen Salon with reg no RAN 107 SA and a Toyota Hiace bus registered XA 399 SHR.

The corp said that crash left nine persons dead and another nine injured. Victims were taken to Genearal Hopital, Kafanchan

The bus was ferrying the contingent of the Adamawa state’s PDP youth leader.

We also gathered that many others are injured, three of whom have been evacuated to the Federal Orthopedic Hospital Kano because of the degree of their fractures.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/143953-pdp-special-convention-nine-adamawa-delegates-die-autocrash.html

pazienza: You guys are mistaking lagos colony, which roughly means same thing as southwest of today, for lagos the city that later became an administrative capital when colony of lagos( present day southwest) became amalgamated with southern nigeria( edo and eastern region). That was the first amalgamation, before the north-south amalgamation, it was a disaster that joined the fate of the harmonious people of the eastern block with that of people of lagos colony( southwest).

Africa: 'Lagos, Ibadan, Among Africa's Top Cities to Watch'


As attention shifts to emerging markets as investment destinations, following the economic downturn in the West, a new report has listed two Nigerian cities - Lagos and Ibadan - that will make up 10 leading African cities to watch for investment inflow.

Rossikk: What has GDP got to do with the quality of life and infrastructure in cities?

Rossikk:

You're busy talking about ''firsts'' while cities like Uyo, Ilorin, Enugu and Calabar, are attracting investors and tourists alike, owing to their development strides. Pitiful.

Rossikk: [s]
Please take your miserable, tribalist, spear-chucking, hateful, ignorant, low IQ, uneducated, school dropout, worthless self back into the stinking market pee-hole you sneaked out of.[/s]

Rossikk: You're busy talking about ''firsts'' while cities like Uyo, Ilorin, Enugu and Calabar, are attracting investors and tourists alike, owing to their development strides. Pitiful.

List of Nigerian states by GDP


The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total GDP (PPP) in 2007.[1]


Rank State PPP GDP (2010;
in millios
of USD)
1 Lagos State US$33,6790
2 Rivers State US$21,073
3 Delta State US$16,749
4 Oyo State US$16,121

Rossikk: www.nairaland.com/attachments/1280767_2342392389_02b44c6249_o_jpg8a22a133bac2d24bc8d80cce2f9a7276

It takes a really sad person to equate this image of colonial neglect and infrastructural decay with ''progress''. Where are the sidewalks? Why have the people got on no shoes? And this is supposed to have been the nicest part of town. In today's Ibadan you will see a better image than this, so why the romanticization of the colonial past?

Rossikk: [s]
I don't blame you. Afterall someone granted a motorpark tout like you internet access. Any pics of 1960s Ibadan apart from Cocoa House, Leventis, UI and Mapo Hall?[/s]

Rossikk: It is YOU that lacks comprehension. The point is that there is nothing to romanticise about 1960s Ibadan. The place was even more neglected and underdeveloped than it is today. Posting images of cocoa house and Leventis is useless.

Rossikk: KEEP FOOLING YOURSELVES HERE.

WHAT IS IN 1960s IBADAN THAT IS SO GREAT COMPARED TO TODAY? The place looks far more underdeveloped than today's Ibadan.


You wouldn't see that today, when things have supposedly ''gone downhill''.

lygn19: [s]
LoL...don't make me laugh pls...when did d yoruba's bcom achievers,,,sha its tru,,,u ppl achieved a lot no wonda in ibadan d only buildings u see der dat re worth looking at re d ones built during d colonial era...u ppl really achieved a lot in giving Ibadan Nigeria's largest slum dwelling... We re so proud of u[/s]

eaglechild: [s]Eiyaah
This one pepper you well.
I simply provided a link to dispute your bogus claims and you go berserk.
All I need you to do is stop perpetrating the lies your fathers told you to your future generation.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
I can see you've cunningly changed it to black Africa, if I provide another link now you'll change it to West Africa, and then Nigeria, then Oyo state.
My history books did not tell me any such thing.
I'm a fan of correcting misinformation.
You never know who is reading.[/s]

pazienza: Isn't lagos colony the same thing as today's south west with little or no difference? I think the whole yoruba south west as we know it today, was once called lagos colony, they were never part of southern nigeria, until they were amalgamated with southern Nigeria.

emmatok: No Igbos

lygn19: If ibadan is d 1st,,,and so damn what,,,d Indians were d 1st to settle in America,does dat mean they rule america?...arrogant human being

talktimi: Youre a very funny boy even with your delusions & bigotry . We all know who is hate filled and bugged down by tribal worries between the both of us, youre actually attaining legend status with your hate induced posts on nairaland sef. Funny pikin please read through the post you directed me to again maybe you will have small "sense"

talktimi: youre obviously the pathetic soul here. If you decided to reason a bit, you would realize that i made valid legal points. If you have your own opinion to counter mine or any other here then state it. Without writing an epistle here its clear from my post that the moment we made english our official language in this country, such efforts by our amiable governors will meet constitutional brick walls except the SW has secceded from Nigeria without my notice. Like i said, lets hear what the ministry of education has to say about this first.

eaglechild: Do you seriously believe that Africa was such a dark continent, that a substandard stadium like that was the first?
Below is a link with a list of stadiums in Egypt.
Note that there is one with a capacity of about 20,000 in Alexandria built in 1929 when Ibadan was still dotted with thatch houses.
Stop making bogus claims,
Pls.
http://www.worldstadiums.com/middle_east/countries/egypt.shtml

talktimi: [s]must you behave like an urchin at all times ? [/s]

naptu2: [img]http://2.bp..com/-oaDH6S9oZ2Y/UW4xV6ASb4I/AAAAAAAAiYU/hHsKjUVp5jw/s400/first+tv+woman+africa.jpg[/img]

Anike Agbaje-Williams:  A Broadcaster, The first person, male or female to appear on Television in the whole of Africa. This was at WNTV-WNBS Ibadan on 31 October 1959.

WNTV was later taken over by the Federal Military Government (when state governments were banned from owning broadcast stations) and is now NTA Ibadan.

I watched a beautiful interview with her in 2009, to celebrate 50 years of television in Nigeria. She never missed a day of work and was broadcasting even when she was pregnant.