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Tribalism is one disease that can blind you more than diabetes. Marrying in igboland is this expensive and igbo okada riders, agberos and teachers paid for an igbo wife. From where did they get the money?

She could be their love-vendor.

He was Yoruba whenever he needs something from the SW and Fulani anytime he travels to Abuja to scout for contract.

texazzpete:
LOng ago, tens of thousands of Africans were taken from their continent to serve as slaves to white men who believed the black man is intrinscially inferior to the white race. This erroneous belief permitted much suffering and pain to be meted out on black people in the name of slavery.

Fast forward to 2009 and see some Nigerians stupidly trying to pass across this same message of superiority, albeit on a tribal/ethnic scale and not a racial scale. Do we never learn? What in God's name does anyone stand to gain from pursuing a tribalist agenda?

I feel the Mods should do more to stamp out these evil and divisive topics from NL.

Very good but if I recall very well, you once called igbos  "treacherous people" in one thread about Nzeogwu and his coup long time ago. I don't see any difference between that statement and what Toppup said about Yorubas or does it become tribalism when certain ethnicities are insulted?.

Make una dey there dey laugh Diya. Diya's case was a miracle for those who do not believe in miracle.

[quote author=$osisi link=topic=305023.msg4294393#msg4294393 date=1249349728]Old enough to be raped  without recourse?
He did not consent.
Or you mean adults can't be raped?[/quote]I thought he agreed to give him some chop chop. I didn't know he drugged him.

His suspected co-conspirators are Wahab Adeniyi, 39; Gbenga Aladelusi, 32; Okoro Emeka, 21; Hastrup Adesoji, 24; Gbenga Odumolu, 23; Azeez Amusa, 45 and a lady who prevented the police from arresting him, Mrs. Yetunde Adelugba, 38.

Okoro Emeka was the same guy who knocked up tpiah.

Was he arrested for raping an 18 yr old boy because he is old enough?. I think he was arrested for being gay.

U.S. Electronic Waste Gets Sent to Africa
Toxic Trash Sickens Young Scavengers in Ghana
By RON CLAIBORNE
ACCRA, Ghana, Aug. 2, 2009
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It's the wet season now in Ghana, and the heavy, daily rains have turned the vast field behind the Agbogbloshie market into a muddy swamp.

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Electronic junk from America finds its way to Africa. Debris in the Agbogbloshie dumpsite in Ghana,
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With the mud so thick it can pull the shoes from your feet -- if you're lucky enough to have shoes -- the children come here to rummage and rake the mountains of electronic debris that spills across the landscape.

They are scavenging for copper wiring that they can sell. On a very good day, they can extract about $2 of copper from the broken computers, telephone answering machines and televisions that have been discarded.

Much of the e-waste in the Agbogbloshie dump comes from foreign countries, including the United States. Recyclers that buy it from government agencies ship it overseas in cargo containers mixed in with second-hand electronics. The buyer in the foreign country keeps what is salable and carts of what isn't to e-waste sites such as Agbogbloshie.

Children at Risk
Some of the children are aware that breaking open junked electronics exposes them to potentially harmful chemicals, such as lead, mercury and cadmium. Many don't know. No one is deterred.


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Yusef Nashedu, 12, has been mining the field for copper for the past three years. He goes to school weekdays and comes here after school. On weekends, he spends all day in the dumpsite.

"Sometimes, I feel sick," Yusef said. "In my body, I can't feel free."

Dressed in short pants, a dirty polo shirt and plastic yellow flip-flops, Yusef shuffles through the jagged debris, stooped over, looking for copper wires.

Some of the children built fires on which they toss large hunks of discarded electronics. The fire melts the plastic, revealing the copper wires inside. The fire also releases toxic fumes.


"We are looking at immense health implications," said Mike Anane, a local environmental activist who frequently visits the Agbogbloshie field to warn the children and adults of the dangers of what they are doing.

"For the kids, we're talking about lowering the IQ as a result of the lead, of the mercury, even the cadmium. It affects the nervous system. These are kids. Their bodies are very vulnerable," Anane said.

It is difficult to trace where the e-waste comes from. Most of it has been shattered or broken into pieces that bear no identifying markings. But among the scattered junk are a few items with labels.

Anane held up computer pieces with decals for the Washington Metro Transit Authority, U.S. Army, State of Connecticut Mental Heath Facility, and other U.S. city, state and federal agencies. According to environmental group Greenpeace, even computers with the label of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were found at the dump.
Cheap Dumping Sends E-Waste Abroad
Under the 1998 Basel Convention, it is illegal for someone in a signatory country to send hazardous materials to another country without that recipient country's permission. But the United States, Afghanistan and Haiti never ratified the convention, so it is not unlawful in those countries.

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In the case of the United States, which has stringent laws governing the disposal of e-waste, it is cheaper for recyclers to just ship the junked electronics to a country like Ghana than to properly dispose of it. And with few exceptions, it is legal.

"This is a pure cost situation," said Casey Harrell of Greenpeace's San Francisco office. "There are no nefarious masterminds here that are trying to ruin the lives of people overseas. The reality is you can send these container ships for pennies."

A federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) report in August 2008 found that "potentially harmful used electronics , [are] virtually unrestricted" to foreign countries.


The United States does ban the export of television and computer screens containing Cathode Ray Tubes, or CRTs, which contain lead. But the GAO report, titled EPA Needs to Better Control Harmful Exports through Stronger Enforcement and More Comprehensive Legislation," concluded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was lax even in monitoring the export of CRTs.

"EPA has done little to determine the extent of non-compliance with the rule and even less to deter such non-compliance," the report stated.

"It's a very damning report," Harrell said. "Basically, it said that the Environmental Protection Agency and the federal government was doing little to nothing on the regulation of e-waste."

At the time of the report, the EPA was under the Bush administration.
'Tsunami' of E-Waste Anticipated
In an e-mail reply to questions from ABC News, the EPA -- now overseen byt the Obama administration -- said: "Over the last year, EPA has stepped up enforcement of the CRT rule as it regards export. Last year, EPA began more than 20 investigations into possible violations of the CRT export requirements."

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John Stephenson, GAO director for Natural Resources and Environment -- and a harsh critic of the EPA last year -- concurred.

"It appears that they are more aggressively investigating and enforcing the CRT rule," Stephenson said. "I know there has been enforcement activity against recyclers, and that's more than they were doing before."


When asked if the EPA is doing a better job now than the previous EPA, Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardou Materials, said, "No."

In any case, American e-waste containing CRTs is a fraction of the e-waste that is allowed to be exported.

The GAO report and Mike Anane in Ghana both warn of a coming wave of e-waste -- Anane calls it a "tsunami" -- in the form of old televisions as a consequence of the change in the U.S. from analog to digital television.

"The prospect looms that many more used electronic devices will be discarded in the near future," the GAO said.

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Little ‘Obama’ emerges best debater in South West
BY BOLU-OLU ESHO, Ado-Ekiti

Friday, July 31, 2009
He’s 13. He attends public school in Ijero-Ekiti in Ekiti State , but now everyone calls him little Obama after putting up a rare feat at Presidential Debate Competition.
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Omotosho Oluwayomi humbled pupils from big cities in the South West at the just concluded Presidential Debate Competition in Ibadan emerging the best single debater.

The Apostolic Subject Teacher Pilot School, Ijero bred little Oluwayomi from primary two to six to become an idol every parent wishes to see her child attain in her lifetime.

Having pummeled his counterparts from other local governments in Ekiti State at the grand finale in Ado-Ekiti, the new wiz kid on the block led the state team to the South West level of the competition.

The national stage of the competition is billed for next month in Abuja where finalists from the six geo-political zones would assemble for the grand prize.

In a chat with Daily Sun, when he came to present his prize to the Executive Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prince Dayo Adeyeye, the wiz kid said right from outset, he was sure of winning the competition. He said he didn’t feel any complex when he saw other debaters at the competition, especially those from the big cities and high brow private schools.

Oluwayomi gave kudos to his teachers and state co-coordinator of the competition, Mr. Olawande Francis and Mrs. Bose Jegede respectively for exposing him to computer usage.

Describing the wizkid as a genius, Olawande said: “I have taught brilliant pupils in the past, but I would describe the boy a genius. What baffles me most is the fact that the topics he debated at the competition were sent to him three days before the competition in Ibadan, yet he outshined even his mates from Lagos and Ibadan, especially most of who were attending private schools.

“He was so bold that it didn’t take the state coordinator of the competition to teach him and other competitors from the state on how to overcome the fear of facing large crowd and the complex of comparing his school and base with that of his counterparts from other states in the Southwest. He performed brilliantly. I’m really proud to be his teacher.”

Jegede, who so excited about the performance of the state and the wizkid said: “I was excited by the remark of the moderator of the competition in Ibadan when he said: ‘This is the Obama of our time. He made his presentation like an orator.’ This is the height of our pride as the Fountain Of Knowledge.”

Commenting on the performance of the wizkid and the state representatives at the competition, Adeyeye said before he assumed office as the boss of SUBEB, pupils from private schools were representing the state in all competitions, but he stopped this when Governor Segun Oni turned the education sector round.

He boasted that pupils in the public schools in the state have gone to the level that even their counterparts from private schools now envy them.

Ekiti State won the second best at the group level, while Oluwayomi emerged the overall best debater of the competition. In the certificate presented to ‘Kid Obama’, he is the Best Speaker of the Year in South West.”

Little Oluwayomi is looking forward to clinch the national best prize in Abuja .

Crude Oil:
Incompetence begets incompetence. Yar;adull is an incompetent president so are his appointees. The head is the one to be sacked firt.

If you sack him, who will you replace him with?

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Ozigbo nje. This maniac has shifted to tribalism in order to pat herself on the back. I got nothing else to say since you believe that murder can be justified and anybody who disagrees with your theory is definitely an igbo man  from Anambra. It shows me how juvenile you are. Obviously, your brain does not develop as you age. You are a 12 year old in a 40 year old body. Keep publicizing murder as if it's child's play but you will remember this day that I warned you about it because if you take another person's life[I don't care what the person did to you], you must go down for it in Jesus name. I wouldn't wish murder on your children but I wonder how happy you'll be  if another murders your child while she's  sleeping because she slapped and kicked her butt during a fight. It's not only men that are capable of beating women, women do beat their husbands sometimes and if your theory is true, then those men should take a gun and lodge some bullet into their wive's brain. They can as well shoot every man that tries to slap them on their way to work. You are a terrible person and every normal human being should stay 100 kilo meters away from you. Your fellow maniac, tpiah is always around to help you out as she offered. Her hatred for igbos is an unquenchable fire that glows in her spirit night and day. if your murder theory becomes a law, i am sure she will have a field day murdering igbos till Jesus returns. I do think she can form an anti igbo ally with you favourably because both of you are on the same age and mental state. She is 43 and you could be 40 from my pictorial guess.  You may also show her the place where you made your lips like a mound of mud[ dear lord am loving Wole Soyinka's lion and the jewel ]. It's a pity that a beautiful face like yours houses a deep pain. Its a pity. hey, It's not as if we igbos/anambrarians care what tribalists think about us. We will continue doing our thing. Aluta continua!!!
For the records, I am not from Anambra.

Whille raising the initial objection to the press conference by the South-South senators, Senate Chief whip, Senator Kanti Bello, had said: “My privilege has been breached. What the South-South senators had said and I want to refer you to Sections 16 (1) (a) and (b), and 16 (2) (a) and (b) 16 (3) (a) and (b) 16 (4) (a) and (b). My reason is simple and that is that the bill should be withdrawn.

“It is my honest view that this Petroleum Bill that the South-South wants withdrawn after Second Reading, after going to public hearing which they have every opportunity to put in their views which they don’t want to do, they are coming in as a group to insist for the withdrawal is really a breach of my privilege and that of the Nigerian nation and every patriotic Nigerian citizen.

“Again, if you refer to Section 147, the president has the right to nominate a minister and that minister has been nominated, he has been screened by the Senate, and for South-South Senators to sit down and say that he should be removed arbitrarily is really a breach of my privilege.

“With this now sir, I reckon that one thing that this Senate should resolve is that the Senate of the Federal Republic isn’t ethnic in nature and that we are patriotic Nigerian people and that we insist that there is no way Lukman should be removed simply because southern people say so, I so move.”

Isn't senator kanti Bello correct?

Apartheid in Nigeria?


A rather bizarre advertisement appeared recently in a Nigerian newspaper. In the said advert, the owners of a housing estate in Lekki, a suburb of Lagos, had put up some apartments for renting. They, however, said in the publication that the apartments were for expatriates only.

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Nigerians could not apply. No reason was expressly offered in the publication for excluding Nigerians from applying to live in the choice estate.

Not surprisingly, the publication has sparked public outrage against the owners of the estate for what most people see as rank apartheid against Nigerians in their own country.

Responding to the controversy, a spokesperson for the property owners, Rasaq Okoya Properties Ltd, said in a tone indicative of remorse, that the advert was not intended to insult Nigerians. According to her, the only reason for the caveat as to who may apply and who may not, was that most Nigerians usually considered their rents too high and may not be able to pay. She said the apartments were usually made to suit expatriates who simply want a place where there is good security and all the conveniences.

By implication what the property owners were saying is that Nigerians can do with anything less suitable while the expatriates want the best in their living environment. This sort of self-denigration is bad for the image of the country. It also speaks volumes on how Nigerians often treat their fellow citizens with less than the respect and dignity they deserve.

There ought to be an official way of checking this sort of outright discrimination against Nigerians in their own country and by their fellow countrymen. Whatever the grounds, property owners must realize that the battle of the present age is that of the equality of all human beings, regardless of their race or social and economic status. Those who openly treat others as less than human commit a serious crime against humanity.

Rasaq Okoya Properties Ltd and all others who may be like-minded must desist from that sort of insult. It must not be said that there is any part of this country in which Nigerians are not permitted to live if they can afford it. And those who deliberately pitch their prices in such a way as to exclude Nigerians must also realize the damage they are doing to the dignity and psychology of the nation’s youth.

After all, what else is apartheid if not a system in which Blacks or certain people are forced to live away from white people? In the then apartheid South Africa, black and white people lived in separate neighbourhoods and their children attended separate schools. It was quite offensive and obnoxious. No wonder the world, in one voice, condemned such a system and saw to it that it was eventually dismantled in a country where Blacks constituted more than 80 per cent of the population.

The public’s anger over the Lekki housing apartheid policy is therefore perfectly understandable. We agree with the human rights community that the government must stop that sort of nonsense before it becomes a normal practice by property owners and managers. While those who placed that advert could be conceded their right to give their apartments to whoever they please, this right does not permit them to insult the sensibilities of Nigerians against the intentions of the Nigerian constitution.

Not even the explanation by a spokesperson of the property owners could atone for that brazen apartheid against Nigerians. By assuming that no Nigerians can afford to live in the apartments, the property owners, themselves Nigerians, can be accused of either over-pricing their property or believing the worst about their fellow countrymen. Pricing is known to be an effective tool of discrimination. The action of the company is hardly patriotic. We believe that no such egregious insult will be tolerated by any self-respecting people.

The Rasaq Okoya Properties Ltd, owned by the respected Okoya family, got this wrong. The company should therefore see the necessity to tender an unreserved apology to Nigerians for treating them with such gratuitous disdain.

Sack Lukman, Barkindo now - Senate orders Yar’Adua
Taiwo Adisa, Abuja
Friday, July 31, 2009
SENATORS on Thursday concluded on a decision to pass a motion to ensure the removal of the Minister of Petroleum, Dr. Rilwan Lukman, and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mohammed Barkindo.





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The Senators reached the conclusion at a closed session on Thursday where they discussed the demand by senators from the South-South caucus that the Petroleum Minister be sacked.

But it was learnt on Thursday that the senators further resolved that apart from Lukman, the NNPC GMD must also be relieved of his appointment because of what the senators tagged deliberate acts of sabotage against the Federal Government.

A source at the closed session told the Nigerian Tribune that the senators came to the conclusion that all decisions taken by Lukman and Barkindo since they assumed office appeared to have been deliberately aimed at putting the government in bad light.

“Some of the decisions they have taken so far are anti-government, they are deliberately aimed at ridiculing the government. For instance, why did they bring up the decision to announce the setting up of Petroleum Institute in Kaduna at this time when we are just trying to come out of a situation in the Niger Delta, when the region is complaining of marginalisation?” a source said of the outcome of the closed session.

Senators from the South-South region had on Wednesday addressed a press conference seeking the removal of Dr. Lukman for alleged anti-Niger Delta policies.

But the Senate Majority Leader, Senator Mahmud Kanti Bello, raised a point of order on Thursday, insisting that his privilege had been breached by the press conference addressed by the South-South.

He said that the South South lawmakers were a part of the Senate which screened Lukman and that the lawmakers were also part of the Senate which passed the Petroleum Industry Bill through a second reading.

According to the senator, it was wrong for the lawmakers to now turn around and demand the removal of Lukman and the withdrawal of the Petroleum Industry Bill.

Leader of the South-South caucus in the Senate, Senator Bassey Ewa-Henshaw, said that the South South senators only exercised their right to freedom of speech, adding that they did not breach the privilege of anyone.

Senate President, David Mark, while trying to avoid further altercation on the floor, ruled that since the matter affected all senators, the Senate had to dissolve into a closed session to discuss the matter.

Sources at the closed session told the Nigerian Tribune that the entire Senate had resolved to accomplish the constitutional procedure for the removal of Lukman when they resumed from their current recess, which starts today.

It was gathered that the Northern Senators Forum(NSF), which spearheaded the clearance of Lukman as a minister, also agreed with senators from the South South that the minister should be removed.

Another source said of the decision of the closed session: “We have resolved that Lukman and Barkindo must go. We will pass the necessary motions seeking their removal when we return from the recess.”

It was gathered that the Northern senators felt betrayed by Lukman for failing to redeem the promises he made to the caucus when his confirmation was opposed by the South-South last year.

A source said that when the issue of confirmation of the minister came to the Senate, senators from the South rejected him and insisted that he had nothing to contribute to the government, having been over-recycled. But the Northern senators pleaded with their colleagues after meeting with Lukman to extract some concessions.

One of the requests tabled before the minister and which was agreed to, according to the source, included the need to pacify the entire country through effective running of the oil industry.

The senators were said to have asked Lukman to begin an employment scheme for youths across the country within one month of getting to office.

He was also requested to ensure the retirement of all old hands in the NNPC and replace them with new hands so as to give the government some semblance of performance.

But the sources said that Rilwan Lukman reneged on all the agreements after assuming office and started painting the government as if it was bent on treating the Niger Delta people as non Nigerians.

“We have resolved that the executive of the Northern Senators Forum should do nothing to save the minister and the NNPC GMD, because the decision has been concluded,” the sources said.

Whille raising the initial objection to the press conference by the South-South senators, Senate Chief whip, Senator Kanti Bello, had said: “My privilege has been breached. What the South-South senators had said and I want to refer you to Sections 16 (1) (a) and (b), and 16 (2) (a) and (b) 16 (3) (a) and (b) 16 (4) (a) and (b). My reason is simple and that is that the bill should be withdrawn.

“It is my honest view that this Petroleum Bill that the South-South wants withdrawn after Second Reading, after going to public hearing which they have every opportunity to put in their views which they don’t want to do, they are coming in as a group to insist for the withdrawal is really a breach of my privilege and that of the Nigerian nation and every patriotic Nigerian citizen.

“Again, if you refer to Section 147, the president has the right to nominate a minister and that minister has been nominated, he has been screened by the Senate, and for South-South Senators to sit down and say that he should be removed arbitrarily is really a breach of my privilege.

“With this now sir, I reckon that one thing that this Senate should resolve is that the Senate of the Federal Republic isn’t ethnic in nature and that we are patriotic Nigerian people and that we insist that there is no way Lukman should be removed simply because southern people say so, I so move.”