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SIMPLE: work slowdown. They will quickly pay u

Why don't police put checkpoints those areas?

Made me really lol

LaudableXX:
Exactly! That is just what they have done, with the current LUC. They have come up with all sorts of badly computed estimated rates, to represent the market value of a property. Is market value not supposed to be based on a 'willing buyer-willing seller' relationship? Family houses are even now subject to LUC. They were exempted before.


May you live long! May the wisdom God gave you never diminish!

Thnx, bro. You too. It is obvious that this guy spent some time in US but not nearly enough to to get the full picture. He is trying to copy US (NYC especially) in a jerky, spotty, type of way, forgetting they arrived at and are still arriving at a comprehensive system that works for THEM after hundreds of years of trial and error. Hence they have numbers like 0.076? Ambode why do u have 0.076? Why not 0.075.?!

Bad law. Very bad law. Ambode, u can't copy America piecemeal. It is an entire system that works together. You can't copy it here and there. It won't work. Nigeria is a different type of society. Never forget that.

Firstpage:
And what does that mean?

has the east seceded while the west remained in Nigeria?

That Awo's speech has been much misinterpreted and even misquoted. Since the speech is not that long, I am posting the entire speech here. If u read it carefully you have to admit that Awo's position subsequently dramatically changed. Basically he said two things here:

1) IF BIAFRA IS ALLOWED TO SECEDE THE WEST WOULD ALSO SECEDE
2)(And probably more important) 
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THE FEDERAL GOV'T USE FORCE TO KEEP BIAFRA FROM SECEDING

Here is the speech in it's ENTIRETY.
(NOTE THE BOLDED):


The aim of a leader should be the welfare of the people whom he leads. I have used ‘welfare’ to denote the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of the people. With this aim fixed unflinchingly and unchangeably before my eyes I consider it my duty to Yoruba people in particular and to Nigerians in general, to place four imperatives before you this morning. Two of them are categorical and two are conditional. Only a peaceful solution must be found to arrest the present worsening stalemate and restore normalcy. The Eastern Region must be encouraged to remain part of the Federation. If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts of omission or commission to secede from or opt out of Nigeria, then the Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the Federation. The people of Western Nigeria and Lagos should participate in the ad hoc committee or any similar body only on the basis of absolute equality with the other regions of the Federation.

I would like to comment briefly on these four imperatives. There has, of late, been a good deal of sabre rattling in some parts of the country. Those who advocate the use force for the settlement of our present problems should stop a little and reflect. I can see no vital and abiding principle involved in any war between the North and the East. If the East attacked the North, it would be for purpose of revenge pure and simple. Any claim to the contrary would be untenable. If it is claimed that such a war is being waged for the purpose of recovering the real and personal properties left behind in the North by Easterners two insuperable points are obvious. Firstly, the personal effects left behind by Easterners have been wholly looted or destroyed, and can no longer be physically recovered. Secondly, since the real properties are immovable in case of recovery of them can only be by means of forcible military occupation of those parts of the North in which these properties are situated. On the other hand, if the North attacked the East, it could only be for the purpose of further strengthening and entrenching its position of dominance in the country.

If it is claimed that an attack on the East is going to be launched by the Federal Government and not by the North as such and that it is designed to ensure the unity and integrity of the Federation, two other insuperable points also become obvious. First, if a war against the East becomes a necessity it must be agreed to unanimously by the remaining units of the Federation. In this connection, the West, Mid- West and Lagos have declared their implacable opposition to the use of force in solving the present problem. In the face of such declarations by three out of remaining four territories of Nigeria, a war against the East could only be a war favoured by the North alone.
Second, if the true purpose of such a war is to preserve the unity and integrity of the Federation, then these ends can be achieved by the very simple devices of implementing the recommendation of the committee which met on August 9 1966, as reaffirmed by a decision of the military leaders at Aburi on January 5 1967 as well as by accepting such of the demands of the East, West, Mid-West and Lagos as are manifestly reasonable, and essential for assuring harmonious relationships and peaceful co-existence between them and their brothers and sisters in the North.

Some knowledgeable persons have likened an attack on the East to Lincoln’s war against the southern states in America. Two vital factors distinguish Lincoln’s campaign from the one now being contemplated in Nigeria. The first is that the American civil war was aimed at the abolition of slavery – that is the liberation of millions of Negroes who were then still being used as chattels and worse than domestic animals. The second factor is that Lincoln and others in the northern states were English-speaking people waging a war of good conscience and humanity against their fellow nationals who were also English speaking. A war against the East in which Northern soldiers are predominant, will only unite the Easterners or the Ibos against their attackers, strengthen them in their belief that they are not wanted by the majority of their fellow-Nigerians, and finally push them out of the Federation.

We have been told that an act of secession on the part of the East would be a signal, in the first instance, for the creation of the COR state by decree, which would be backed, if need be, by the use of force. With great respect, I have some dissenting observations to make on this declaration. There are 11 national or linguistic groups in the COR areas with a total population of 5.3 millions. These national groups are as distinct from one another as the Ibos are distinct from them or from the Yorubas or Hausas. Of the 11, the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group are 3.2 million strong as against the Ijaws who are only about 700,000 strong. Ostensibly, the remaining nine national group number 1.4 millions. But when you have subtracted the Ibo inhabitants from among them, what is left ranges from the Ngennis who number only 8,000 to the Ogonis who are 220,000 strong. A decree creating a COR state without a plebiscite to ascertain the wishes of the peoples in the area, would only amount to subordinating the minority national groups in the state to the dominance of the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group. It would be perfectly in order to create a Calabar state or a Rivers state by decree, and without a plebiscite. Each is a homogeneous national unit. But before you lump distinct and diverse national units together in one state, the consent of each of them is indispensable. Otherwise, the seed of social disquilibrium in the new state would have been sown.

On the other hand, if the COR State is created by decree after the Eastern Region shall have made its severance from Nigeria effective, we should then be waging an unjust war against a foreign state. It would be an unjust war, because the purpose of it would be to remove 10 minorities in the East from the dominance of the Ibos only to subordinate them to the dominance of the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group. I think I have said enough to demonstrate that any war against the East, or vice versa, on any count whatsoever, would be an unholy crusade, for which it would be most unjustifiable to shed a drop of Nigerian blood. Therefore, only a peaceful solution must be found, and quickly too to arrest the present rapidly deteriorating stalemate and restore normalcy.

With regard to the second categorical imperative, it is my considered view that whilst some of the demands of the East are excessive within the context of a Nigerian union, most of such demands are not only well-founded, but are designed for smooth and steady association amongst the various national units of Nigeria.

The dependence of the Federal Government on financial contributions from the regions? These and other such like demands I do not support. Demands such as these, if accepted, will lead surely to the complete disintegration of the Federation which is not in the interest of our people. But I wholeheartedly support the following demands among others, which we consider reasonable and most of which are already embodied in our memoranda to the Ad Hoc Committee….

That revenue should be allocated strictly on the basis of derivation; that is to say after the Federal Government has deducted its own share for its own services the rest should be allocated to the regions to which they are attributable.

That the existing public debt of the Federation should become the responsibility of the regions on the basis of the location of the projects in respect of each debt whether internal or external.

That each region should have and control its own militia and police force.

That, with immediate effect, all military personnel should be posted to their regions of origin….

If we are to live in harmony one with another as Nigerians it is imperative that these demands and others which are not related, should be met without further delay by those who have hitherto resisted them. To those who may argue that the acceptance of these demands will amount to transforming Nigeria into a federation with a weak central government, my comment is that any link however tenuous, which keeps the East in the Nigerian union, is better in my view than no link at all.

Before the Western delegates went to Lagos to attend the meetings of the ad hoc committee, they were given a clear mandate that[b] if any region should opt out of the Federation of Nigeria, then the Federation should be considered to be at an end, and that the Western Region and Lagos should also opt out of it.[/b] It would then be up to Western Nigeria and Lagos as an independent sovereign state to enter into association with any of the Nigerian units of its own choosing, and on terms mutually acceptable to them. I see no reason for departing from this mandate. If any region in Nigeria considers itself strong enough to compel us to enter into association with it on its own terms, I would only wish such a region luck. But such luck, I must warn, will, in the long run be no better than that which has attended the doings of all colonial powers down the ages. This much I must say in addition, on this point. We have neither military might nor the overwhelming advantage of numbers here in Western Nigeria and Lagos. But we have justice of a noble and imperishable cause on our side, namely: the right of a people to unfettered self-determination. If this is so, then God is on our side, and if God is with us then we have nothing whatsoever in this world to fear.

The fourth imperative, and the second conditional one has been fully dealt with in my recent letter to the Military Governor of Western Nigeria, Col. Robert Adebayo, and in the representation which your deputation made last year to the head of the Federal Military Government, Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon. As a matter of fact, as far back as November last year a smaller meeting of leaders of thought in this Region decided that unless certain things were done, we would no longer participate in the meeting of the ad hoc committee. But since then, not even one of our legitimate requests has been granted. I will, therefore, take no more of your time in making further comments on a point with which you are well familiar. As soon as our humble and earnest requests are met, I shall be ready to take my place on the ad hoc committee. But certainly, not before.

In closing, I have this piece of advice to give. In order to resolve amiably and in the best interests of all Nigerians certain attributes are required on the part of Nigerian leaders, military as well as non-military leaders alike, namely: vision, realism and unselfishness. But above all , what will keep Nigerian leaders in the North and East unwaveringly in the path of wisdom, realism and moderation is courage and steadfastness on the part of Yoruba people in the course of what they sincerely believe to be right, equitable and just. In the past five years we in the West and Lagos have shown that we possess these qualities in a large measure. If we demonstrate them again as we did in the past, calmly and heroically, we will save Nigeria from further bloodshed and imminent wreck and, at the same time, preserve our freedom and self-respect into the bargain.

May God rule and guide our deliberations here, and endow all the Nigerian leaders with the vision, realism, and unselfishness as well as courage and steadfastness in the course of truth, which the present circumstances demand.

——————–

Speech by Chief Obafemi Awolowo made to the Western leaders of thought, in Ibadan, 1 May 1967 (quoted in “Crisis and Conflict in Nigeria (Volume 1), January 1966-July 1971” by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene

Nigeriapen:
Much of the glut could end up heading into the refining systems of major oil companies like Shell and Total, a trader said, meaning the excess is effectively lower than 50 cargoes. Demand for Agbami and Qua Iboe has been higher than demand for other grades so far. while Qua Iboe was being offered at about dated Brent plus $2. About 10 April-loading Angolan cargoes remained available, steady from Tuesday’s estimate.

This basically means there is no glut - less than 50 cargoes. Also Kwa Igbo and Agbami are actually seeing higher demand.
Confused news.

CAPSLOCKED:

ONCE PEOPLE DIE, THE ONLY PLACE THEY QUALIFY TO GO TO, IS INTO THEIR GRAVES.

WHERE THEIR BODIES WILL BE DISINTEGRATED BY THE ORGANISMS LIVING IN THE SOIL, THAT'LL MIX THEM, AND TURN THEM INTO DIFFERENT NUTRIENTS NEEDED IN THE SOIL FOR THE GROWTH OF PLANTS, AND FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF LIFE.
AND THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS.



THERE'S NOTHING LIKE SPIRITS, OR GHOSTS.

NOLLYWOOD IS BAD FOR OUR LIVES.

As someone rightly said, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IN THE UNIVERSE. Don't doubt that something happened

Wristler:
Hmmm... I'll have loved to point out one or two things for you man, probably asked for empirical proofs... but then, I don't have that time for now, plus we've discussed this coup issue (and some others like it) at length on this forum. I don't know if the hacking of yesteryears spared them.

Briefly to some of your points...

Prior to independence and not long after the colonials left, the cold war between the North and the East was only a matter of ticking bomb... hence the infamous Sardauna speech abt the Easterners wanting to/taking up everything for themselves only and his hypothesis of Igbos being overtly over-ambitious. The interview was conducted by a white man who also realised the marriage was having issues already... The look on Sardaunas face also speaks volume about what is bottled up in his mind.
But then the Northerns were cautious and diplomatic.....

That coup was uncalled for.
The whole country was just as we have it now... Corruption, impunity....name it. But then, It was not in the place of some overzealous barrack boys (who unfortunately are majorly of a tribe that was as at then controversial) to resolve something everyone else was carefully and tactically watching how it would play out... The colonials were also aware of the whole intrigues.

The Eastern version/excuse abt the coup is that it was all about Awolowo (who as at then was aggrieved) Awolowo never asked for such. Ask yourself ....What would have those boys done if Awolowo declined after that coup? How did they think Awolowo would calm all nerves, knowing well that Awolowo himself was aggrieved and Zik was at then the tall bride? How did they think Awolowo would rule ? By owing some gun thirsty boys a huge favour? It would have worsened things

Man, the coup was all about some Eastern young boys in close proximity to power drawing the first blood (being too cocky and zealous... the same things the North despised abt them then). That's the truth.

The major targets were Northern and Western elites...how gracious can concidence and luck-chance be to the Eastern leaders. A coup void of tribal sentiments would have taken at least one Eastern elite....Ofcourse the North got the message, (Ironsi made things seem more as though it was nothing bad) and it was obvious when they came after Ironsi and others in the counter-coup.

All stories about a few Yorubas being involved is just to save face. Some of the Yorubas knew either too little or too late abt the whole thing.
K. Nzeogwu's interview after Ironsi came to power doesn't seem like he had Awolowo nor Nigeria in mind for the coup. His confidence was like someone who is happy abt the turn of events (Ironsi coming to power and doing nothing abt the plotters)

I repeat, if the coup was abt Awolowo, the sequence and dynamics of the coup would have led to a different story entirely.

There are many accounts, theories and conspiracies about who did what before during and after the war... Some will even accuse Britain.... but the facts are that some boys majorly of a tribe killed leaders from other tribes for reasons best known to them, at a time when every other tribes were nervy, wary yet careful.

Have u considered that these were young men who didn't have things thought out. Everything was fuzzy with no clear agenda.

Firstpage:
Agreed with who? You kids should use your brain or ask questions before displaying your ignorance on a public forum.

Awolowo told Gowon that if Biafra is agreed to go, Oduduwa would also go. That's a conditional statement if you ever went to school.

Wrong. If you read Awo's statement, he said the west would seceed if, FOR ANY REASON, the east was not persuaded to stay part of Nigeria. This was a public pronouncement. U can easily Google it.

One word of advice tho sir. Avoid coups so u won't be tempted to go the way of rat poison.

Happy B D Obj!! You managed to squeeze 20 lifetimes into one. You try, I no go lie.

dorcy001:
ur statements shows that u don't understand marketing strategies....u don't just use any business name....ur biz name must be attractive n easy to pronounce

You mean like Chisco, Dangote, Ekene, etc. Great African-sounding names. I can't even pro ounce Ethelbert

malcom2x:
What's with the U.S flag?

It is not US flag. (I am tempted to add mumu, but I won't).
It is Liberian flag.

dorcy001:
ur statements shows that u don't understand marketing strategies....u don't just use any business name....ur biz name must be attractive n easy to pronounce

U mean like Chisco, Dangote, Ekene, Ebuka, etc?

airsaylongcon:
An Infinity Suit from TM Lewin would have sat and those broad shoulders like they were custom fitted for him... Forget about Made in Naija... Wear a suit that fits

Colonial mentality. Beauty is in the eye if the beholder

ipobarecriminals:
it is not Aba made. sha

Yes it is.

midolian:
"Ethelberts" made in Aba? why apply so much make-up on a brand name? why not the Igbo names that we know? like "Emeka", "Nonso", "Chukwudi" etc so we can know its made in naija

Very true. He must change the stupid Ethel Bert name. What is ETHELBERT?!

Promote locally made. ALWAYS. Free lnnoson.

Cromcruach91:
Muritala Muhammed

Your namesake had achieved a lot by the time he died at 38.....while you are there stealing for pennies....

WELL...Karma has caught up with you. Enjoy.

His namesake was a mass murderer. Google "Asaba massacre". So the name fits.

Topestbilly:
Read my post again and quote me when you understand it both sides.

I read it again. That priest knows he is doing wrong. Suicide bombers are doing it to get quickly to paradise.

Oluwaseyi456:
Oleè

You can say that again.
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NEVER lend money unless two things are in place:
1) You know where the person MUST be most of the time
2) You have an assured way to scare them or shame them

MiyettiAllah:
Crack and porn, nasty combination.

Frst few hits of a sizeable rock gives you a very intense pleasure all over and sends you into another world of ‘agro’. You crave sex like never before, throwing porn in the mix - is a killer. Your hormones will spill everywhere within you so much thag your groin will feel like it wants to explode with pleasure.

I was never a crack smoker but hung with smokers males and females alike. Crack is the easiest way to bring out the freak in a female, a few hits and she’s already peeling off her clothes and underpants ready to shag for hours but sadly for the males, after the first few hits shoots up the feeling of pleasure all over the body, the penis will begin to shrink which makes the ‘agro’ nothing but a waste and suffer.

Crack, the easiest way to screw the most beautiful chick on earth.

WHAT A LOAD OF NONSENSE. Why do people insist on saying things they know NOTHING about?! When a woman takes a hit of crack, shortly all she wants is another hit of crack NOT sex!!

BanevsJoker:
So the Sun sent his own friend to his house with a hidden camera. His own friend. How low can this newspaper get. One of the reasons the entire city of Liverpool have boycotted this rag. The Sun in Nigeria is also similar, trash.

Who will they send that will have access to him? His enemy? What's wrong with u?

Spicycat:
This thing about 72 virgins keep coming up please where did you read it from? Or who tha hell sold you this idea

""The Quran itself describes little about the specifics of the afterlife, but it does note that believers will find huris, or maidens "of modest gaze, whom neither man nor jinni will have touched before them." (Every believer can end up in heaven; martyrs just get there faster.) Respected commentator Al-Tirmidhi said in a hadith that every man will have six dozen huris in heaven, but very few commentators enumerated the rewards for women. Ninth-century scholar Al-Tabarani did argue that women will be reunited with their husbands in the next world, and those who had multiple husbands can pick the best one to be their eternal spouse. (Other commentators added that a woman who never married can marry any man she wants in paradise.)

From the 9th through the 12th centuries, Muslim scholars described paradise as a place of sensual delights—for men. They debated whether men remained married to their wives in heaven, whether they could have sex with the virgins, and whether the heavenly virgins had anuses. (Some said there was no need for elimination in the afterlife.)

There was even disagreement on the number of virgins assigned to each man. While Al-Tirmidhi said it was 72, Mulla Ali Qari, an 11th-century imam, counted 70 virgins and two human wives. Imam Al-Bayhaqi was more generous, granting men 500 wives, 4,000 virgins, and 8,000 previously married women.""

Topestbilly:
The hypocrites will detach him from Christianity which is fair enough but if it's one Abdullahi or Musa that cannot even perform ablution properly, the whole Muslims and Islam will be condemn by some bigots.

One big difference: He is not killing people in the name of Christianity and shouting "god is great" while doing it, in hopes of being rewarded with paradise and 72 virgins!

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Emezy:
Goodday Nigerians, I don't know the right section to put this. Am a young guy and i need need help as i av tried everything else but nothing has worked. I started learning how to sew cloth on August last year, early this year my oga came back from village and told us that since we av learned how to sew cloth, that we should leave. it was a shock to us because he didn't give us another reason and that was the only place we get our small money from. I left January ending and since then av been at home. I do get some amendments once in a while but doing is always hard as i av to go to one shop in my street at night when the man is trough for the day to work them. please good people i need a sewing machine to start work but i don't av the money or the means to get one, so i said let me BEG here. please anything anyone can give, no matter how small God will surely bless the person beyond imagination. nothing is too small. I know things are hard in the country but anything anyone can spear will go a long way. thanks and God bless

How do peeps send you the money?

lilkudos:
money can't buy you happiness... i can bet ma atm card on that....

Excitement is the opposite of boredom, not happiness. And money can definitely buy u excitement!

maestroferddi:
If you live around Kilo - Masha - Aguda - Ikate axis, try to board buses at Kilo Bus Stop.

Buses leave from there as early as 5 am for the Island. You are unlikely to enter a One Chance vehicle from around that area.

I have a feeling you must have boarded from around National Stadium area - a virtual no man's land because robbers from all over the South West operate on the extensive Ikorodu Road - Funsho Williams Avenue - Carter Bridge - Ahmadu Bello Way road network.

Good advice

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