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OP

apparently u are right but i would not encourage you to be thinking like that.

those that do this violence have paid with their life as well

that is why jungle justice is encouraged in the SW and sharia in the North

instance justice without waiting trial. Very bad

[quote author=okada_man link=topic=761675.msg9162892#msg9162892 date=1316218829]I still do not understand why this article has not hit the Homepage like the earlier LIE!

Seun I know You are awake o, at least I saw the threads you recently posted. So I'll assume that you chose to ignore the thread.

Put this up, let Nairalanders see how their government jumps into hasty conclusions like I'm probably doing right Now.    [/quote]LOL

[s]senu has always been working for PDP and GEJ[/s]

ask am o

the earlier thread was moved away or deleted

he is correct makes me think of people like tafa balogun and co that were even higher than DPO's and still[b] Might[/b] be uneducated

redsun:
The only thing that brought boko haramism to nigeria is endemic corruption,they pitch where the system is totally broken,where there is no rule of law

but that does not give boko haram the right to be killing us ?

yes there is corruption and in fact when i pass through lekki, i just use to wonder, How many are Tinubu's houses in this hundreds of "so called lekki, ajah estates"

redsun:
Corruption is cancerous,it throws common sence to the wind and ground reasoning.

gbammmmm well said

Second National Operator Globacom, has opened its neighbourhood customer care centre, Glo Zone, in Sabongida Ora, in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State.

This brings to three the number of such shops opened in Edo State since the network launched the concept two months ago. The other two were opened in Okada and Ekpoma.

Glo Zone is conceived as a one-stop shop run by private and budding entrepreneurs which will provide services and conveniences similar to what is obtainable in Globacom’s retail outlet, Gloworld. It is to be located at walking distances in neigbourhoods across the country.

Speaking at the commissioning of the Sabongida Ora Glo Zone, the Transition Chairman of Owan West Local government Area of Edo State, Hon. Victor Asein, described Glo as the pride of Africa and the only network that has consistently demonstrated the resilience of the black man.

Noting that Globacom has indeed etched an undeniable imprint in the hearts of every African, Hon. Asein said that every black man all over the world should be proud to associate with the company.

The council chairman who was the Special Guest of Honour at the commissioning ceremony added that the coming of Glo Zone to Sabongida Ora would eliminate all the after-service issues people in that area used to encounter.

‘’I am pleased to commend the initiative of the management of Globacom in bringing this shop to Sabongida Ora. Globacom is the pride of Africa and indeed all blacks, all over the world”, he said, adding that through innovation and sustenance of quality and affordable products and services, “Globacom has managed to remain top-on-mind and the darling of the people”.

Hon. Asein said that Globacom had from inception demonstrated its “abiding faith in the Nigerian project and the Nigerian people. The entire people of Owan West are happy that this shop is located here in Sabongida Ora and will put the facility to the best use”.

In his remarks at the occasion, Globacom Head of Territory for Mid west, Pastor Samuel Ibrahim, said that Globacom will continue to delight the people of the area, pointing out that the new shop would complement the ones opened in Ekpoma and Okada only last week. ‘’Plans are on to open more Glo Zone shops in other parts of Edo North and Edo central in the not too distant future”, he added.

The essence of Glo Zone, he explained, was to bring customer care services to the door steps of the people and ensure that no subscriber on the Globacom network will go through any stress before his issues are resolved.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/another-glo-zone-opens-in-edo/

na wa ooo 200%

ridiculous price and i don't believe it

Lol

well, who wan die. Even old soldier no wan die

whether he beg to prevent Ota or not is not really material here

so long as he beg on behalf of the country, then good

i knew the end result of this thread from the start

@Eko ile

STOP COMPARING South-West WITH THE South-East. It makes no sense if we are still in One country

jor,. I beg u

stop it

coogar:
the ijaws actually believe they own all the coastal line from rivers state(south-south) to lagos(south west).
i don't know how that's possible but that is their belief.

exactly. you see why i call it an ethnic fraud that needs to be revisited fast

surely, they are going to have a face-off with with OPC one way or the other

who wins is a different matter, but thousands of people will surly die for a matter that is very avoidable

this is what Ijaw caused in the so called Niger-delta republic.

[size=13pt]Ogonis are not Niger Deltans and we want our own state out of Rivers State — MOSOP[/size]

BY GEORGE ONAH

THE Ogoni people of Rivers State do not want to be addressed as Niger Delta people because “we are not”. They also want political autonomy, which translates to having their own state. Sunday Vanguard travelled to Teyork, Khana Local Government of Rivers State to speak with the new leader of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, Mr. Goodluck Diigbo.

He recalled his association with the late leader of the movement, Ken Saro Wiwa, his electrified cell, their last moments together, before Ken was hanged. Diigbo spoke about the many attempts on his own life, escape to Ghana and the two attempts to kill him there. Central to all these was the MOSOP non-violent struggle and well as the Ogoni Bill of Rights, NDDC, MOSOP’s recent elections and controversy about the location of UNDP and UNEP offices to tackle environmental problems there.

SHALL we talk about the Ogonis in the Niger Delta region

Listen, I want us to know one thing, the Ogonis are not Niger Deltans, we are just neighbours with the Niger Delta people. There is documentation on how Ogonis and people in the Niger Delta became a province. It was not Niger Delta and it is clearly stated in those documents that those in the Niger Delta and some sub-groups were joining them and the Ogonis were one of those sub-groups. This Niger Delta thing has been used to over shadow our non-violence struggle and our demands. People have just been lumped together and they said they created the Niger Delta Development Commission to address the Niger Delta problem. The NDDC has not addressed any problem of the Ogonis.


Are you suggesting that the NDDC has not impacted on the lives of the Ogoni people?
It is simply no impact at all. When I travel to other communities in the region I see signpost indicating projects by NDDC, but here, there is nothing of the sort, no road, just nothing. But I must quickly say that the Federal Government has been very supportive when this land was deserted for four years because of community clashes. Today, up till date, the state government has not asked about what has happened to the people that used to be known as Teyor Kaani, now Teyork community.

The MOSOP elections have come and gone but we are hearing some bickerings, what is it about?
Yes, about the elections and the new leadership. It is like the old leadership has not come to terms with the fact that a new leadership has emerged in MOSOP

I want to say that we are moving on and we are not dissipating energy on what those who lost out in the elections are saying. We are just moving on with our very critical programmes. Our focus now is no longer on the election but on the agenda of the new leadership

What was your position in the days of Ken Saro Wiwa?
It is a long history; I was involved from the scratch from Ogoni Central Union until it metamorphosed into MOSOP

What was this Ogoni central union all about?
Well, it was a political union founded by the foremost Ogoni nationalist Hon. Paul Timothy Birabi. The organisation was later disbanded but we reactivated it.

Let us recall the days of yore in Ogoniland. Now were you able to escape from the military when Ken and others were picked up?

All that is contained in my book that was supposed to have been released in New York last week. However, it was God’s will. I survived five attempts on my life here in Nigeria in the course of my hiding. You see, it is rather emotional. There were also two attempts on my life in Ghana and that brings the attempts to seven. These were difficult moments but I managed to walk across the border all the way to Accra.

Let’s go a little backward, down memory lane. How did you feel the day you heard that Ken had been hanged?
I was in this country; I was here in Nigeria because I did not want to go. I was in communication with Ken until that last moment and until his cell was electrified with barbed wire and the purpose was for any unauthorised person who went near or touched the cell to be electrocuted. He had insisted that I should leave the country. He had also spoken to Prof. Claude Ake (of blessed memory) to persuade me to leave but I said I was not going to leave unless they were released. Of course that was a very difficult principled position.

Even to leave Port Harcourt for Lagos, I said I was not leaving. I, however, had a premonition that if I left for Lagos I would have been arrested anyway. So I stayed here until six weeks after the execution. I was virtually the last key person to leave here.

I was here when Ledum Mitee was released from detention, I communicated with him but that almost led me into danger and I don’t want to talk about that now. I had to leave when it became difficult for people around who were crying day and night that I would be killed and I also became unwanted in the place that I was hiding.

Ken would always say that you can kill the messenger but you cannot kill the message. On the day Ken was hanged, did you see the fire in you go off or did you think that the struggle was over?
No, definitely not. Rather, I thought that the struggle was just beginning. I was quite aware that he had pre-warned me about 153 times on the basis of person-to-person and it’s in my diary while talking about his death. He knew death was coming and he was very clear on what should be done when he is finally killed.

Ken visited me on the night of November 9 and that was the day before he was hanged. I sat on a couch and he sat by my side. I turned and tried to touch him but the place was void, there was no one there.

Couldn’t this have been some kind of dream while you were sleeping or some sort of hallucination?
No, I was not dreaming and I was not sleeping, I said I was seated on a couch and people around me know the story. I started weeping and throughout that night I could not sleep because he came back again when I slept to lie by my side. Finally, he went into some kind of a river and left and said I should go back and that was on the 9th of November. I wept all day and all night and so on the 10th when I now learnt that he had been hanged, I couldn’t cry again. I just took the story as if nothing happened.

But why didn’t you want to leave?
Actually, I stayed back to see how we could regroup and resist. But you see our people were deceived by the reaction of the international community to pacify our people, which I think was good. Of course, we were still vowing to be non-violent, but I think the pacification by the reaction of the international community turned around to what has killed MOSOP now. The action of the international community gave a lot of hope or high expectations to our people on what would happen. A number of others (Ogoni people) left for overseas and to be overseas as refugees was not something easy.

What exactly are you asking for?
We are not just asking for those basic amenities that we can provide for ourselves. Up till today Ogoni land has not been connected to the national grid, just look around, there is no electricity.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/ogonis-are-not-niger-deltans-and-we-want-our-own-state-out-of-rivers-state-%E2%80%94-mosop/

nasoeb:
@odezue
Igbos are found every where.

and i just told you why its very common to see the igbos living freely and easily fitted in Bonny and her sister kingdom Opobo.
1. Because we adopted igbo language as means of communication during the then slave transaction.
2. Because the Ijaw Man is relatively Peace Loving and very difficult to react

could the same not be said of igbo, I mean in terms of Ndoki people

could the same not be said of bini (gelegele)

could the same not be said of yorubas in ondo that gave ijaw land

so why are ijaws claiming every land from lagos to awka ibom

do you not think that is a recipe for disaster to come

Ok take a look at lagos and ajegunle. were ijaws indigenes of the place

what is the meaning of ajegule in Ijaw/izon language ?

were they not given the land just few years ago until they pushed OPC

so what are you talking about here

if ijaws are claiming ondo etc as the land they gave others, then others can claim their land as well such as itsekiri, urhobo, igbos

but the reverse is not the case

you people are pushing people off their land and claim u gave them land and claiming even the land that was given to u people by other groups

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Lastly WHAT IS IJAW

This is a fraud of the century that needs to be revisited. I was hearing an Ijaw man the other day claiming that ilaje people of lagos are Ijaw.

Well Ilaje and they can never ever be called ijaw. Why u ask ?

Because they have not language sharing with them and there is no way that ilaje people can be called ijaw all in the name of costal people.

can a typical Kalabari man understand an apoi ijaw (apoi ijaw are not ijaw but recently added ijaw to there name because ijaws claim their ancestors started from that land)  speak ?

can an okirika man understand a typical delta ijaw.

etc No so what is all this fraud that you people call ijaw. izon nation

Instend of joining up to igbos, you are here forming a different ethnic that is surely less than 10 million where as the yorubas are 40 million and igbos 30-35 million. and still growing

I find this very disgusting and sad

1 Ijaws against Ilajes in Ondo State

2 Ijaws against Binis in Edo State

3 Ijaws against Itsekiris in Delta State

4 Ijaws against Urhobos (Ogbe Ijo, Gbarigolo, Olota, Okweagbe etc.),all in Delta State

5 Ijaws against Ekwerres in Rivers State

6 Ijaws against Ogonis in Rivers State

7 Ijaws against Ibibios in Akwa Ibom State

8 Ijaws against Yorubas in Ajegunle; Lagos State

this so call south south is already a dead dream

[quote author=South-East link=topic=761590.msg9161306#msg9161306 date=1316194682]So that you yaribas will try to corner that too? I dey laugh oh!. I did not know BA is a company director too in Bayelsa.[/quote]who is this ideeiot calling ethnic groups to this matter

monkeyleg:
Another monumental Phuckup from Goddy's office . Wey Beef, he started the news on NL

gbammmm

nice one OBJ

very mature way of handling issues such as this

kudos!!!!

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=761590.msg9160918#msg9160918 date=1316190091]

I don't know why anyone finds this funny.

Loss for Nigeria as a whole[/quote]Lol u joking right

Yes we all know it is a loss for Nigeria as a whole but we are laughing because it is embrassing and a disgrace that a small company can do this to Nigeria a country when we still have Innoson motor that Nigeria government can invest in and later diversify to building ships in the near future

WE ARE LAUGHING AT PDP

macjive01:
its going to be like a tsunami, festac, ajegunle, alaba, yaba, ikoyi, ijesha, maryland . . .  10 LGA is going to the bag

i think it is a good development but how do they intend to do that

ACN is still in lagos, PDP and even CPC

i don't see APGA getting those LG just like that, but then again there is nothing God cannot do

mitofag:
What? Alj Harem knows everything


Whatchu talking about.  He is God

No i am not God o. Infact i am nothing, just some man that comes to nairaland when he feels like laughing

fstranger, how is your day na ?

[quote author=PROUD-IGBO link=topic=760874.msg9155374#msg9155374 date=1316117400]We can achieve a lot as a country if only there's peace. Imagine a peaceful Nigeria with a government allowed (by the born-to-rule and embittered cabal) to get on with the job of creating development. Imagine tourists flocking to Nigeria and feeling free to go anywhere from the vast and open vistas of the north, to the exciting rolling hills and forests of the south, and down to the coastal tourist hot-spots of Badagry, Calabar and Uyo- meeting friendly and happy Nigerians wherever they go.

Just imagine!!![/quote]very correct

that is way i look at how OBJ, IBB, ken nnamdi, Jonathan are all friends and think to myself. this cabals are not tribalistic at all. they have passed that stage and see how they can explore the masses which is us.

thus into we the masses are fighting over land, tribe and what not.

^^^^^^

if u don't have something positive to post, just ignore it

must u compare it ?

Bliss4Lyfe:
Hey guys, can u tell me wat all the Ndoki, ijaw, ngwa or Asa has to do with Benin. Ijaws have never fought against their big brothers from the east and won't dare.

LOL

Ekpeye, Ndoni, Etche, Ikwerre, Ndoki

may be you need to get ur facts right, from abia to imo they are there ijaw clans

Onlytruth:
You are in Lagos and enjoying yourself. When Fashola and Yorubas kick you out tomorrow, you can't even muster enough support from the Igbo homeland because of some of these idiotic anti-fellow Igbo policy that destroy the unity and togetherness of Igbo.

Onlytruth, if you believe "yorubas" or fashola would kick anyone out of lagos then u must be dreaming brother

I think it's been long u have visited lagos that is why u talk like this.

if fashola is going to deport anyone, then he must deport other "yorubas" to there respective states.

Do you really think yorubas or fashola are that ethnocentric ?

I think you have been on Nairaland for too long that is why u posted that.

don't mind people like me, eko ile etc when we post. WE JUST HAVE FUN with ur emotions at times

I am an indigene of Lagos Omo eko awori from isale Eko and I am posting this to you. It would not happen so stop this ur insecurity

[quote author=South-East link=topic=760174.msg9154760#msg9154760 date=1316111316]Assuming for s econd that you are correct (of course you are lying), is the police force owned by Lagos? What sort of mumu are yoo?[/quote]lets not result to insults. calm down

again i am not lying, ask afam/james to comfirm with i am saying

the police force is not owned by lagos but we are talking of government employees here ain't we

thus whether state or federal , they are still not controled by the private sector thus the indigenes can lay claim to it whether federal or state

ChinenyeN:
Alj_Harem, if you are going to speak my language then speak it well. I don't understand what this "keku ka imelo" or this "kedu ahagi" you're saying.

keku ka imelo = hello how are you or how is ur day

Kedu ahagi = what is ur name

i thought that was ngwa .

hmm

afam4eva:
@Jason
I live in Lagos and I know what I'm talking about.Look at all the lagos agencies eg LASEMA, LASTMA etc and tell me how many non-Yorubas you see there. Most Igbos in Lagos either have their own private business or work for a private firm.

afam wrong very very wrong

the majority of the police force in lagos is about 70% igbo

go check ur data. just because some of them don't speak igbo to you or for u to hear does not mean they are not igbo

have you for 1 second checked their name tags

you schooled in unilag right! thus i must have meant u one point in life or the other

did you know the names of even the employee in unilag security and staff ?

Rgp92:
Why bro? why do you want your fellow countryman to fall?

coward SWerner well it is good for the peace of the nation

ChinenyeN:
Alj_Harem has claimed everything there is to claim from Yoruba to even my own Ngwa. This character.

keku ka imelo

abụ m onye Igbo ngwa/ijaw

trying to learn the ngwa dialect as well

so kedu ahagi ? why use chineye,

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=760170.msg9154642#msg9154642 date=1316110312]the two guys are yoruba, though i dont know where the actual location of that photo is.

pity- i seem to be one of the few people who actually knows what nigerians look like.[/quote]how was ur day

Tpia how do you know ?

anyone can just claim anything

kpogede77:
Yoruba  militants from Ilaje clan

Na lie

those are ijaw militants in delta state

how can yoruba get liver do that one. big lie

we ijaws know ourselves

Bliss4Lyfe:
All that i will say is dat, the[b] Ijaws are no easy bone to chew[/b], if u get my drift.

what do you know about bones

so bless4lyfe how u dey na long time

this seant02 is one big ideeiot

@Topic

kudos we hope to hear more good news

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=760170.msg9154420#msg9154420 date=1316108204]This topic is one reason why to keep Nigeria One Is A Task That Must Be Done.  Without the Patriotic North center holding the country together, many of you people will kill each other off at a faster rate than the Rwandan tibes annihilted themselves.  SMH


I have to admit that the Ijaws are smart people, they intelligently avoid clashes with the Fulanis and allow them free pasage through the region. Imolites understand what I mean very well.[/quote] ndu chuk man u are one funny character