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I wonder how many Nigerians remember the way Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) was releasing huge sums of money. I also wonder whether President Jonathan wants to show that profligacy, which has occurred rampantly in the 6 geopolitical zones, can be best associated with Niger Deltans in the face of avoidable poverty. |
hallmark77:Since you have not proffered any evidence, have you not broken the law of "Love your neighbour as yourself" - making false accusations. Have you asked yourself whether or not your comments could amount to mocking GOD? |
But, didn't they sell their lands to outsiders for money, just like the mirror and whiskey story? |
One man's meat is another man's poison? http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/08/‘acn-marginalising-lagos-indigenes’/ Lagos State Indigene Political Emancipation Forum, an umbrella body for indigenes of Lagos, has called on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to correct what it termed as the political intimidation, oppression and suppression of Lagos indigenes. Mr Nawairudeen Idowu, the Forum’s spokesman, who addressed newsmen, said: “A situation whereby all the local government chairmen are non-indigenes, most of the councilors are non-indigenes is untenable”. He attributed the situation to the act of selection instead of allowing the people to decide who should represent them, “All the local government chairmen are tactically selected by instituting kangaroo primary elections”, he said. “Five Local Council Development Areas (LCDA) were created out of Alimosho Local Government and only Egbe Idimu has a semblance of an indigene running it. “The same problem is facing Lagos State House of Assembly and the House of Representatives while in Alimosho House of Reps, the position has been rotating between two non-indigenes since 1999”. |
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/08/debtor’s-in-law-stabs-bank-manager-to-death/ By Albert Akpor The manager of a Lagos branch of a bank just taken over by government, Mr. Emeka Ohazuruike, was stabbed to death yesterday at his Agboju, Lagos residence, by one Kenneth said to be an in-law to a debtor to the bank. Details of the circumstances leading to the murder was sketchy at press time, but sources said the deceased had gone to the home of the debtor (names withheld) to ask him to pay his debt when the debtor and his in-law rebuffed him. The bank manager reportedly returned home only for the assailant to follow him accusing him of incessantly embarrassing his in-law. A heated argument ensued following which Kenneth allegedly brought a sharp knife and dealt several blows on the deceased who gave up the ghost before he could get medical attention. The state police spokesman, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, confirmed the tragic incident saying both the debtor and Kenneth had been arrested |
would you say there genes is X% of nupe and X% of kanuri when clearly they are igbo nowYes you said they can use a reference of lets say 8000 yrs yoruba as reference . but how are they sure the man in question is yorubaRight now scientists are making use of unilinear markers - mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosome (NRY) - because of the characteristic of uniparental inheritance and the presence of lineage-specific markers and very soon will be able to "distinguish between different migration events which are very close in time". Also, this can be combined with genetic and genomic analysis of certain peculiar phenotypes like resistance or susceptibility to some pathogens, dietary adaptation, pigmentation, hair thickness and tooth morphology. And as I mentioned earlier, Human DNA genome is estimated to contain 3164.7 million chemical nucleotide bases (A, C, T, and G). If all humans today are 99.9% similar DNA content that leaves about 3,164,700 bases with variations - enough potential biomarkers if you ask me. |
I'll respond much later (tonight). All the best |
You can check these out as well http://jandyongenesis..com/2009/03/edens-flood-east-and-west.html http://jandyongenesis..com/2009/07/jebusites-unveiled.html |
@jason123 and alj harem, it is called peer review. Human DNA genome is estimated to contain 3164.7 million chemical nucleotide bases (A, C, T, and G). If all humans today are 99.9% similar DNA content that leaves about 3,164,700 bases with variations - enough potential biomarkers if you ask me. When constructing phylogenetic trees the assumption is that the representative sequences (eg Yoruba, Sudra, Nubians) are descended from a single ancestral sequence. The variations are then used to calculate the p-distance (estimate of evolutionary distance which requires correction) of non-identical alignment positions (perhaps orthologous genes with almost identical biochemical functions like muscular looking women). This can be combined with anthropological data to get a picture of the migratory patterns. However, due to various mutation rates for different sequences, tracing ancestry can be carried out up till a certain period when the results begin to get ambiguous - as one gets closer to the present. If researchers can get DNA samples of some people who can reliably trace their ancestry up to, say 8,000 years ago these can be used as a sort of benchmark for comparison. For instance, if some Yoruba samples are analyzed some unique sequences common to the group would have been discovered. When an individual then wants to trace his ancestry his DNA sample is matched against this unique sequence and the degree of match used to determine (not very accurate though) the level of Yorubaness. Similarly, since the emergence of Ishan from Benin is recent the variation, if at all any, would be difficult to point out. Also, linguistic analysis points to a Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) for the Yoruba and Igbo. This MRCA is Abraham. How about this? When Mr and Mrs A settle in the land of X and bear children, their combined and "randomly" distributed genetic profiles would be transmitted to their offspring (B,C & D). Each of the offspring would inherit a particular combination. B, C & D move out to establish their own territories and bear offspring. B begets B1, B2, B3, B4; C begets C1,C2; and D begets D1, D2, D3, D4, and D5. The individuals of this 3rd generation inherit distinct genetic profiles from their parents of the 2nd generation and also move out. We can thus safely infer that the 2nd and 3rd generation derived their genetic diversities from Mr and Mrs A. As Mr and Mrs A have the sequences found in all the offspring albeit for certain mutations we can further conclude that any group of people possessing all the sequence variations are the ones from which others were derived as their offspring who migrated would have lost sequences not useful to their new environments. Hence the Out-of-Africa hypothesis. |
I wonder if you all noticed the way Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar was releasing money yanfu yanfu from the nation's coffers when he became Head of State. Then I wondered if he wanted to compete in terms of stolen wealth with IBB. Maybe I'll try to compile a list of the various sums. |
He who has sinned not should cast the first stone What about those Nigerians and their supporters and apologists who think that there are forces against their progress in Nigeria, and seek to live in other countries and acquire other citizenship?. Even if it means living as an illegal immigrant. What about those Nigerians living outside the country who do not seek to contribute to Nigeria and who seek to dominate/show off/oppress their fellow Nigerians? |
There's a "cocoyam" story too which I suspect as very biased; and yet some scorn at an Oduduwa narrative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eri_(king) The myth |
Well, careless drivers get to slow down thus preventing preventable accidents caused by reckless driving at breakneck speeds. |
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Introduction to Programming Using Java, Sixth Edition Version 6.0, June 2011 http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/index.html You can download the website or the pdf (about 751 pages) |
When OLODUMARE ordered AJALAMO to mould man, He also ordered ELA to supervise AJALAMO's work. This infuriated ESU to whom ELA was junior, as ESU thought he had been by-passed in favour of a junior. ESU and his followers then levied war against ELA, on a day known as QJO ETI, i.e., the day of (attempting) the impossible; ESU lost, and he and his followers were chucked out of Heaven. QJO ETI corresponds to our Friday. With ESU removed, ELA became the senior of all the Heavenly Powers, and next only to OLODUMARE. Then OLODUMARE instructed ELA to go down to Earth to put things in order; at that time, the whole Earth was one vast mass of water and sky, with chaos everywhere. ESU got to know of this plan, and he and his followers took three alternative decisions: (a) either to prevent ELA from gaining a foothold on Earth, or failing that; (b) to prevent ELA from carrying out OLODUMARE's instructions, or failing that; (c) to ensure that ELA was unable to return to Heaven to report back to OLODUMARE; this is known as the day of the Three Tries; QJO ABAMETA, corresponding to our Saturday. ELA and his followers descended to Earth on OJO AIKU - the Day of not-dying, or of survival, corresponding to our Sunday (presumably implying that ESU was unable to prevent ELA 's descent; anything in parenthesis like this are the writer's comments, for which he alone is responsible).http://destee.com/index.php?threads/getting-started-with-ifa.59403/page-2 |
Why can't ethnicity be traced if DNA can be used to determine paternity and clarify lineages? Aren't fingerprints the result of the expression of biomarkers? Are you saying that it is impossible to get biomarkers specific to a particular group of people but then accept that biomarkers can be used to determine paternity? And yes, "pure" references can be obtained. Do not say it is impossible if you can't picture it. |
@Negro_Ntns, are you implying that the orisha are various manifestations of energy that were garbed in personalities by the custodians of tradition? I once thought of this but decided to put it aside for a while |
Thanks dayokanu. We should always try to avoid making bold assumptions based on speculations and incomplete information when there is still room to learn more and to prevent being blinded by superiority complex. |
Have you seen the "black" peoples of South Kordofan, Nubia and South Sudan? |
odumchi, How about the Sudanese to the East, don't they have a darker complexion in comparison to other African groups? |
How is that related to the forests in other parts of the country? |
odumchi, what is your basis for your claim that the "East" is/was more forested than any other part of Nigeria? Can you please offer some substantiation? |
Wasn't Esu kicked out of heaven for rebellion according to Yoruba mythology? |
@whobemumu, what do you mean by "multivalent" and what is your yardstick for arriving at "too racially multivalent". Just like Negro_Ntns I can also trace my ancestry and I'm positive that many others can. What do you think is "oriki" for? Do you think its hard to find find little or no diversity among direct royal and priestly descendants? |
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