₦airaland Forum

Nayah:
Ok let's see sister and try form now ignoring them because it's very sad and unrelevant reading some threads like that

That instigator the OP will not be the last and most of the time Nigerians ignore these threads but sometimes these threads thrive and when they do, it is a duty of Nigerians that are neutral, unbiased and normal to show that ignorance because if you don't people start to believe that the ignorant information is fact

Goldieluks:
Pretty pictures by the way.

thank you

Nayah:
In Nigeria ok but let's try being one in front of the others! how come you want to be respected in your own forum if you insult each other? then when some others community, I prefer don't tell the name will come here insult you and disrespect you how will you react? I would be honest with you in my turn, I think some people here are responsible on disrespect and insult from strangers, this is very sad reading some thread like this really

I agree and if you realized in my first post I told the Op to give it a rest, you see I could care less about what non-Yoruba men like him think of Yoruba women behind closed doors in their own houses but keep it to yourselves or family don't display it on a forum and etc because other non-Nigerians read it and you give them ammunition to talk trash as a result to us as Nigerians in directly(they don't care about the tribe). There was one non-Nigerian I remember trashed Nigerians and many Nigerians were angry at him and trashed him back but some of these same Nigerians sort of influenced that fool to talk in the first place since some of them talk trash about one another tribally. To be honest I think nairaland need to start doing a separate section for each tribe to avoid all this nonsense; a thread or forum for Hausa's, a thread or forum for igbo's and a thread or forum for Yoruba's. So they can celebrate themselves amongst themselves without disrespect from other tribes.

Nayah:
These competition will never end!! this is romance section why you giys are tearing apart always in here?
Please youruba= ibo= hausa= edo= ijaw= Ikwerre=benin and so on = NIGERIA

Anonymous6 you don't need to respond to this seriously the most important is being proud of yourself and your culture, let's try for once to give an image of ONE NIGERIA, this is unbelievable to see this, every African country has tribes and yes sometimes they can chill each other or joke but why here on NL this is all about Igbo vs Yoruba vs no matter what and saying such mad things each other, which kind of image are you giving to the Non Nigerian

NL might not be the "ambassador of Nigeria" but you give some reason for some Non Nigerians coming here and disrespect you because you're not united
"Never reveal his guilty secret in front of strangers"

I understand what you are saying but their are people like the OP that start this sort of drama and negativity and then it results in competition. There is nothing wrong to me in people showing the beauty of each region in a country but when there is always or sometimes a bad egg like the OP that uses it as a opportunity to compare themselves to other tribes to make themselves feel important in order to put a certain group down; that is why some of the these beauty threads have turned negative because of people like the OP because he is instigating his opinions as fact and using that as a way to make himself feel important and the other group below him

if you have noticed in the South western Nigerian thread many people were coming in that thread insulting Yoruba women for no reason & all were done by non-Yoruba men but I didn't see Yoruba men go into the northern thread or eastern thread to do that, plus that tells me that they are trying to put a groups down, especially since to be very honest majority of Yoruba women don't mingle with men very much outside their tribe. They stay amongst themselves and never bother anybody. Lastly many of the people who are in nairaland are non-yoruba.

I am going to be brutally honest & let you into a secret of Nigeria; there is Nigeria nationally or nationality when it comes to the Nigerian flag, passports, Nigerian embassies around the world, documentation and etc. Socially & culturally though the Nigerian nationality view goes out the window, because Nigerian people see each other as a tribe before they see themselves as Nigerian(which I don't complain about because some Nigerian tribal cultures are just to unique and rich to mixed in and abandoned), at least for 90% of Nigerians. There is Yorubaland, igboland, hausaland, and all the other small tribes; and each tribe sort of keeps to their space. When it comes to Yoruba's which I am, majority of them keep to themselves they rarely venture outside of Yorubaland to know about other regions, so to me there is Yoruba Nigeria, igbo Nigeria, Hausa Nigeria as far as I am concerned. Some african countries see themselves nationally before tribe but sometimes those countries have already assimilated with each other & lost their tribal culture to not care.

If you go to a Yoruba celebration or gathering all the invites will be Yoruba and maybe a few edo's, if you go to a igbo celebration or gathering all the invites will be igbo and ijaws, calabar, Efik, and well I don't know much about Hausa or fulani gatherings but they tend to stay amongst themselves. Some tribes in Nigeria just don't connect to each other, igbo's think differently from Yoruba and vice versa. I know many Yoruba homes that will never allow their children to marry other tribes and etc  and I am sure it is the same with other tribes.

I don't think Nigeria should separate but I think Nigerians need a reality check and realize the mind frame of the Nigerian society that there are Hausa Nigeria, Yoruba Nigeria, & igbo Nigeria, and the other tribes; each tribal land you go into it's like you are in a different world. I think Nigeria will continue to progress but in their own way depending on their tribal land. Igbo's are progressing their lands in their own way, yoruba are progressing their own lands in their own way and etc. So the mind concept of "ONE Nigeria" is not entirely a mind frame Nigerians follow.

Dandas:
I have read in this Nairaland about a post on "The beauty of Eastern Nigerian women'and also 'The beauty of Northern Nigerian Women' check posts on romance and u will see it.In fact it is indeed a beauty galore.Based on this,last time i posted on this forum that by average Igbo babes(Easterners) and South South babes are more beautiful than the Yorubas and some people are taking it as being tribalistic and condemning the post which is not the truth.Call spade a spade.Hence as Easterners and Northerners have posted the beauty of their women,i challenge the westerners(Yorubas) to post "The beauty of Western Nigerian women"and lets know if my post is worthy to be criticised or not,abi na me make them to be ugly fellows.Lets also tell the truth when a real post is posted and not see it as being tribalistic.

A word of advise to you, stop talking about Yoruba women because it seems your obsessed to tarnish them on the thread or forum, Just stay with your igbo women and give it a rest. Nobody is forcing you to stay with Yoruba women because I don't see the reason why you started this thread, there is one on western beauty and you already did a thread trashing Yoruba women: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-776293.0.html
the thread just showed your opinion nothing more. You non-Yoruba men are getting so desperate now a days with one thread after another over Yoruba women it is so embarrassing.

pendo89:
Dedicating my 2000 post to fallen hero Wangari Maathai. Former nobel peace laureate.

Its true that nollywood has found its way on kenyan streets but its limited to a few people.The women. Men hate those movies cz they are quite addictive and emotional (appeal to women)and at times full of stuff.(you know wht am talking about).

I think the people trying to make it in Kenya are the pastors. Even though a few credible ones have left a sour taste in people's mouths by engaging in immorality with members and bringing some strange gospel based mostly on miracles and prosperity.
Kenyans have this habit of losing interest very fast and before long you are left alone as soon as they realise you got nothing more to offer.

Music? you got it wrong. They only rem the nigerian musicians when they come into the country. The music selling in EA is mainly from Congo,UG and TZ. Each has great musicians and their music sells and appeals to a greater audience in the East. They have their own dancing style or swags.Nameless,wahu,amani,chamelion,juliana,lady jd,kanji,juakali,wyre,marlaw,and many many more.I guess the swahili has greater impact and cuts across these countries. Majority of kenyans love congolese music.

Now the thing that cannot be disputed is the dressing.I too love those nigerian dresses plus headgear.Every woman in Kenya loves them.They wear them on occasions and weekends.The best thing from nigeria to grace the kenyan streets are those dresses plus headgears. Beautiful.

Problem is a few bad people spoil cz every now and then smbody gets arrested at the airport with drugs.It always involves a kenyan woman and a nigeria man. crazy so they treat everyone suspiciously.

I know Congolese or soukouss music will always be the leading african music in sub-Saharan africa due to it's appeal, since every african nation listens to it & it's popular. However when it comes to Nollywood I am not surprised that all black african countries watch it, it is the third industry in the world and it appeals to black africans but I was surprised about the Nigerian pastors part. I never knew their Christian religious influence reach that far into Africa. It's good to know though that Nigerian attire is admired in other african countries though(which is not the first time I heard this).

donspony:
Quite laudable, least I know not all Africans hate us so

Even though a lot of churches are still scams.

lol

[b]"Dear black one-shoulder dress, I am officially retiring you. We had a good run, and it was fun while it lasted, but it is time we went our separate ways! Thanks for the memories! xo Kim."

When Kim Kardashian good-naturedly posted a note on her website last week saying farewell to one of her wardrobe staples -- the black one-shoulder dress -- along with a slideshow documenting 18 similar black gowns the reality star had donned over the past year or so, our trend-o-meter started tingling. Though she may be retiring that particular style of gown, as we delved into our photo archives, we discovered that Kim has already found a new go-to look: the formfitting mini.

Sporting brand new bangs, Kim K. stepped out last Friday for a Perfumania appearance in a two-tone strapless Sass & Bide mini, just the latest in a long line of gowns designed to show off her va va voom hourglass figure. At a TCA Cocktail party on August 6, Kim donned a digital-print Alberto Makali number paired with Brian Atwood pumps. The pattern of the dress is a little questionable, but there's no denying it fits like a glove.

Whether her frocks are strapless, sleeveless, mid-length or long sleeved, black, white or patterned, Kardashian mixes it up so her minis don't look repetitive, but you'll notice one common trait: they all stop in the exact same place -- mid thigh. The best way to accentuate curves is to don formfitting gowns that highlight the waist, as loose clothes only add bulk to a curvaceous physique. And as Kim's on the petite side height-wise, minis and high heels are the best way to extend her body line.

So though she may stick to one silhouette the majority of the time, Kim definitely knows how to dress for her shape. Why mess with perfection?"[/b]
http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/crush/kim-k-kisses-her-one-shoulder-dress-goodbye/427?nc

Kim Kardashian
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Some of Zoe's recent scripts which was the new star trek movie and avatar were good, she will be in part two of star trek next year actually. when it comes to Rosario Dawson, she was high-lighted or featured in the list but they emphasized her as multi-racial and multi-ethnic and that african is just one of the races in her but to be real Rosario Dawson has always called herself mixed never Latina or black, so that's why I don't think she is the best representative of what you will call afro-latina or black-latina; and I think that is why latina magazine made emphasis on that. Zoe Saldana has always called herself blatina or afro-latina, the same with Celia Cruz, left eye, Gina Torres, Tatiyana Ali, and etc BUT not Rosario

Plus when I see Rosario Dawson I see her as meszito/mulatto Hispanic; I don't see her in the black latina list as far as I am concerned, she seems like the mixed race Hispanics americans are used to seeing like jennifer lopez, eve longoria and etc

Rosario Dawson
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[quote author=dr.shrewd link=topic=777550.msg9298880#msg9298880 date=1318076977]quite intriguing influence. in all the good cancels out the bad thanks to nollywood, naija music, naija churches and naija spare parts dealers[/quote]It's true, we should thank Nollywood & Nigerian churches or many countries in Africa will still have a bad image of Nigeria as the scams capital

BBC news special on How Nigeria Impacted The Rest Of Africa


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[b]" As Nigeria celebrates 50 years of independence, BBC reporters look at the impact Africa's most populous nation has had on countries around the continent - from its movie industry and peacekeeping efforts to its notoriety for ingenious scams.

GHANA   https://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2008/05/23/ghana_flag_140x105.jpg
There is no mistaking the ancient cultural and linguistic ties between the neighbours. However, the post-colonial relationship has been characterised by a kind of sibling rivalry. Nigeria is highly respected for leading effective peacekeeping in the region, and at the same time mocked for failing to ensure peace in Nigeria. While Ghana takes pride in leading the continental way in independence, democratisation, and more recently, in sporting achievements.

An estimated 1m Nigerian nationals and dual citizens live and work in Ghana and, paradoxically, communication has been made easier by a shared colonial intervention - the English language and its pidgin variants. And if you go to any home or office in Accra at any time of day, you'll find Ghanaians glued to a television set. Invariably the attraction, or distraction, is a Nollywood movie with common themes of supernatural causes, twisted love, and thrilling crime. Nigerian R&B has also captured the musical tastes of Ghana's urban youth in a big way.

On the streets of Accra I asked some people what the first thing that came to mind with the mention of Nigeria. "Brotherhood," said Stephen Ofosu, a commercial driver. "What I like about Nigerians is that they are hard working in business." Pressed for negative aspects, the answer flowed promptly and unimpeded. "Fraudsters and 419," he replied, referring to the scams often run by well-organised gangs known by the penal code which outlaws them in Nigeria. Laurentia, a higher education student, added: "Whenever a set of armed robbers is caught here, definitely there will be two Nigerians among them."

More wide-ranging positive views came from Nana Akua: "Nigerians like to dress traditionally when it comes to international occasions, we also take pride in our culture but our leaders dress like the whites when they go abroad."

DR CONGO
In sprawling Kinshasa, the only means of transportation is a fleet of ancient, battered taxis.

And if the city does not grind to a complete halt, it is thanks to a network of largely Nigerian traders who provide drivers with precious spare parts.

Huddled around the Kimpwanza roundabout, hundreds of colourful shops display the rare English-language signs visible in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital. "Chance Motors", "In God We Trust Auto" and their neighbours proudly display man-high piles of headlamps, starters and brake pads.

Those entrepreneurs use their connections in West Africa, a global exchange for second-hand automobile parts, to import the much sought-after pieces of mechanics.

Each garage specialises in one or several car manufacturers. For example, if you own a Ford and break down, your only hope is Nigerian-owned Lita Motors, where orders are taken in English or in the local Lingala - but not in the official French.

And perhaps it is the language barrier that has stopped Nollywood, as the Nigerian film industry is known, becoming the phenomenon it has in other African countries.

LIBYA   
While Nigeria's cultural influence may have been huge across other parts of Africa, neither Nollywood nor Naija groove has reached Libya, despite the many illegal Nigerian migrants who regularly cross the desert to reach the North Africa country in the hope of eventually reaching Europe.

To many here, the only thing the two countries share is oil. Their experiences of illegal migrants largely perpetuate negative images of Nigeria and its people, who are viewed as untrustworthy and as being at the forefront of drug smuggling and robberies.

However, you will occasionally come across a Tripoli resident with a positive anecdote - like how they enjoyed practising English with their Nigerian household help.

On the political front, although Nigeria may be seen by some as the giant of Africa, Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi seems to like putting the West Africa nation in its place. Earlier this year, he suggested - to the fury of Nigerian MPs - that the country split in two along religious lines. Shortly after he went even further suggesting the country fragment into several states along ethnic grounds.

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Some 3,000 boundary pillars are being planted along the Cameroon-Nigeria border - it is hoped they will prevent further disputes between the neighbours which nearly went to war over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsular. The conflict was the peak of their mutual suspicion and several lives have been lost in border skirmishes over the years.

Cameroon has long viewed her giant neighbour as an imperialist-in-the-making, especially given Nigerians' ballooning population. They began arriving Cameroon in the early colonial days as fishermen, traders and administrators. Their population is now estimated at more than 4m out of a population of 19.5m.

They own virtually all motor spare part shops and now Nigerian Pentecostal pastors are setting up everywhere and performing supposed miracle-healing services. But many young Cameroonians think churches are flourishing businesses and have joined the race to become pastors, prophets, deacons and overnight bishops. They seem to be in a hurry to transform beer parlours into prayer grounds.

Truly, the "Naija" brand is here and no-one can ignore it. Nollywood films are popular in homes, video clubs and TV channels. Cameroon's young film sector is benefiting from the expertise of their Nigerian friends who have jointly produced a few Made In Cameroon videos. Nigerian gospel music also has enveloped the place and the likes of the P-Square duo have been thoroughly embraced by the youth. But it is not one-way traffic: Many Cameroonians have for decades studied in Nigerian universities.

Perhaps the most concrete evidence of the thawing of relations is the eminent construction of a multi-million dollar highway from Enugu in Nigeria to Mutengene in Cameroon. No-one seems happier than merchants of both countries.

KENYA   
For a long time the only export Nigeria provided Kenya was bad news. Stories of corruption, rogue pastors, hustlers, conmen, scams, even worse traffic than Nairobi and lots and lots of people. The only positive tales were literary, thanks to Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Elechi Amadi.

What changed it all for us in Kenya was Nollywood. Nigeria became real and we were exposed to Nigerians telling their stories and not us being told stories about Nigerians. All of a sudden there were VCDs and DVDs being sold of Nollywood blockbusters. I have an uncle who has a mammoth collection of Nigerian movies and a few other relatives who swear on the integrity of Nigerian pastors.

And as people were exposed to Nigerians, either on the big screen on in person, other elements of Nigeria made their way into the lives of Kenya - notably in fashion and music. Huge and colourful head-wraps, accessorised elegant and colourful boubous (traditional gowns) and for a number of women, that was the outfit of choice at social gatherings. We also started dancing to Nigerian tunes from 2Face, D'banj, Femi Kuti, Bracket and P-Square.

So Kenyans now dance to a very different Nigerian tune. Thanks to Nigeria, West Africa is now at home in East Africa.

LIBERIA      https://www.christianziebarth.com/africanclub/liberia.jpg
Economic links between Liberia and the giant of West Africa have always been strong - the most visible sign of which is the 85km (50 mile) Ibrahim Babangida Highway (named after a former Nigerian head of state) to Sierra Leone's border.

But it is Nigeria's peacekeeping efforts that Liberians are most grateful for. When the civil war broke out, Nigeria led a West African intervention force, Ecomog, which prevented the rebels of Charles Taylor from overrunning the capital, Monrovia, in August 1990.
Continue reading the main story
Nigeria at 50

Ever since, Nigeria has been in the vanguard of peacekeeping efforts in Liberia, and in recent times, has also sent doctors and teachers to help with the country's acute shortages.

Nigerian-owned churches are, arguably, the largest in Liberia, which is fiercely religious, as the country was founded on the principles of Christianity by freed slaves repatriated from the US in the 19th Century.

It is true to say that Nigerians feel at home here. Many Nigerians, including those in the UN peacekeeping force and private traders, are married to Liberian women and have fathered hundreds of children in recent years.

Nigerian movies are also extremely popular and the young Liberian film industry, modelling itself on Nollywood, is called Lolliwood.

But sadly, Nigerians have also been linked to armed robbery and drug pushing in the post-war period.

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Peter Ngoma is a Zambian street hawker who earns an average of $20 (£12) a day selling DVDs. He moves from one street to the other selling his wares. Nigerian films account for a third of his earnings - a feat that the Zambian film industry is yet to reach.

Productions from Nollywood have had a phenomenal impact on Zambians. Most of Zambia's television stations, especially recently established ones, have Nigerian films as part of their regular programming.

The Nigerian influence has been so infectious that in some circles friends pick up the distinctive West African accent whenever they joke or chat amongst themselves about happenings in their lives.

It is Nigerians' power of persuasion, irrespective of what they, do that makes their products sell - and it is what makes them a hit even in religious circles.

Zambia is host to churches with origins from Nigeria and a number of them have large followings.

Such is the popularity of their brand, that many ailing Zambians have flown to Nigeria to seek further healing.

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District 9, the recent Hollywood blockbuster about aliens in South Africa, depicted Nigerians as seedy criminals - it might have only been a movie but in many parts of the country this stereotype has been accepted as fact. Logic says this is a generalisation, still for some reason ordinary South Africans blame no-one else for the country's drug and crime problem - you're almost guaranteed the same answer: "Nigerians - men particularly."

Despite these prejudices millions of Nigerians have made this their home and started families here, which has proved another bone of contention. Phrases like: "They are stealing our jobs and our women" are flung around at dinner tables whenever talk about our brothers and sisters from the north arise.

Still many South Africans do enjoy Nigerian films - there are two channels on DSTV satellite just dedicated to Nollywood, while churches led by Nigerians have mushroomed in many cities, mostly around Johannesburg.

And you have to admire Nigerians, who tend to stand out in a crowd with their big flashy cars, bold dress and lively speech, for their ability to keep their heads up in the midst of great and often undue condemnation. "[/b]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11429067

[b]"In honor of Black History Month, we decided to tackle a subject that comes up again and again in our community; the issue of racism. It has long caused controversy among Latinos, and it’s important to illuminate what it really means to be Afro-Latina. We will shine a spotlight on some beautiful Afro-Latinas in the process.

Wondering what the term "Afro-Latina" means? Miriam Muley, an Afro-Puerto Rican and CEO of The 85% Niche, says being Afro-Latina is, "Not just defined by skin color, because the Afro-Latino experience is such a mixture of different ethnicities. I see being an Afro-Latina as someone whose roots are primarily of African descendant." On the question of racism Muley adds, "There’s an undercurrent of racism, there’s no question about that. There is definitely a ranking that occurs in our community based on skin tone, as well as our hair type and our facial features."

Kafayat Aromashodu, of Nigerian and Honduran descent, also highlights the difficulty of finding acceptance, "People don't really know how to act. Around fellow Latinos, you're seen as the morenita. Around Blacks, you are seen as 'The one who speaks Spanish'. I am raising my children with the understanding of both of our rich cultures. Latin-America and Africa are not different, they go hand in hand."

We've noticed, in our efforts to make the magazine and website as diverse and representative of the whole Latina experience as possible, how truly difficult it is to find prominent Afro-Latina actresses and models to grace our covers and fashion shoots. In that spirit, we gathered a group of notable Afro-Latinas who have made inspiring contributions to our community.

Be sure to check it out below and let us know: What do you think about racism in our community? Have you ever been discriminated against because of your facial features, skin tone or hair type?

by Mariela Rosario"[/b]
http://www.latina.com/entertainment/celebrity/black-beautiful-celebration-afro-latinas

HERE ARE A FEW OF THE HIGH-LIGHTED FAMOUS FEMALES SHOWN AND REPRESENTED
Zoe Saldana
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Gina Torres
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Gwedolyn Ifill
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Celia Cruz
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Christina Milian
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Lefy Eye (TLC)
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Tatiyana Ali
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La La vasquez
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I watched some Youtube videos on the global warming effects in Nigeria and how local Nigerian governments are combating against it. So I wondered do Nigerians ever think about Global warming and if the do, do they care? or are they afraid? or think its inevitable? because the issue hasn't been brought up in the nairaland forum before

here are the videos I have seen about Global warming concerning Nigeria

Eye on Lagos- Climate Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF7mXlQGVSY

Eye on Lagos- Clean & Green

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR-WTMPzD5c

BBC environmental documentary on Lagos, Nigeria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zdBRFWYizo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcaRP4zDHsY&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfMMxK5OrGc&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckG0s9exzE&feature=related


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Governor Fashola Says Lagos Has Built More Roads Then Ghana/Sierra Leone

[b]"Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Thursday said the State has  built more new roads in the last three and half years than either Sierra Leone or  Ghana, two countries in the West African sub- region.

Governor Fashola who spoke at the official commissioning of New Plants and Equipment  of the Lagos State Public Works Corporation at Oba Ogunnusi Road, Isheri added that  in the last three years, 251 new roads comprising 371 kilometres have been completed  within Lagos.

He explained that currently another 44 roads that will provide 77 kilometres of new  roads are under construction and would be concluded within the next six months.

Governor Fashola also said in addition to this, another 60 new roads that would add  129 kilometres are under construction and would be completed beyond the six months  timeline.

According to the governor, any observer of events in Lagos can testify that in the  last three and half years, the State has become a huge construction city with the  Government being non-discriminatory in terms of infrastructure development as it has  been by building schools, hospitals, drainages and more importantly roads.

The governor reiterated that easy movement of persons and goods within and around  the state remains central to the deliverables required for the megacity ideal to  take its proper shape, adding that the vision is to make Lagos the model mega City  in Africa.

Governor Fashola said the strategy is to complement the massive on-going road  construction work in various parts of the state with commensurate routine repair and  maintenance exercise.

While explaining that the administration is committed to ensuring that road  maintenance is sustainable, the governor urged the people to reconsider their  general attitude to road maintenance.

This, he said, can be achieved if the people shun the habit of turning the roads to  refuse dumps as well as engaging in indiscriminate road cutting, stressing that most  new roads have ducts provided with them thus making road cutting absolutely  unnecessary.

Governor Fashola said while Government is not opposed to people engaging in laying  of cables across roads, it is always advisable to seek clarifications to be better  informed, adding that government always advises that it is the contractors who  constructed the roads that should cut and fix back the roads if it becomes  absolutely necessary.

The governor urged the Federal Government to accelerate and show serious commitment  to building a rail network that will help the concerned interests to discharge goods  from the ports.

He explained that the advanced countries which Nigeria seeks to emulate do not  discharge their crude and containers by roads but by rail, adding that this is made  more imperative with Lagos State which has the busiest port in the country.

He added that part of the results empirically proven as being responsible for the  state of some of the roads is that when containers are conveyed from the ports, they  are not taken to the warehouses located at the industrial estates where the roads  have been prepared to withstand heavy equipments, but many would prefer to drive the  containers to the streets of their residence thereby shortening the lifespan of such  roads.

Governor Fashola also commended the Public Works Corporation for becoming creative  in finding new and adaptive ways to keep traffic moving and the roads motorable in  spite of the rains.

Governor Fashola said the new methods have proven very reliable and ideal for areas  that are with high water table and those with challenges of drains adding that the  management and staff of the Public Works Corporation should be ready to sing their  own praises if no one does it.

The Governor emphasized that the items being commissioned only represents a tip of  the iceberg in terms of the investment the State is prepared to make towards  ensuring that Lagos roads remain in good condition all year round

The items include 10 tractors with tipping trailers, 13 double cabin pick-ups,  asphalt cutters with blades, paver, 6 rollers, graders, wheel loader and bulldozer.

He also disclosed that a low bed with head, Hyab hand held rollers and flood lights  are awaiting delivery while signs of adherence to health and safety standards are  already manifesting with the use of cones, caution tapes, reflective chevrons,  flashing lights, nose masks, hand gloves, hard hats, safety boots and the bright  yellow uniforms.

In a welcome address, the Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Public Works  Corporation, Mr Gbenga Akintola said the push of the Governor to re-engineer the  Corporation has led the PWC into adopting a wholistic approach to changing its  fortune for the better.

Mr Akintola assured the Governor that his dream for the corporation will come true  earlier than imagined, going by the level of success already recorded in the area of  capacity to respond to emergency road repair requests, working at night, adhering to  health and safety standards and prosecution of the rebranding project.

He said in spite of prevailing circumstances, the Corporation has been able to work  on 127 roads across the State under the palliative programme which commenced in  August 2010, adding that the Corporation has resumed the production of asphalt which  will enable it to carry out proper repair work that will last much longer and reach  more places faster.

Also speaking, the Chairman of the House of Assembly Committee on Works and  Infrastructure, Hon Dayo Fafunmi thanked the Governor for successfully rebranding  the Public Works Corporation.

While commending the organization for getting busy even during the rainy season, Hon  Fafunmi also urged the Governor to give regular funding to the agency.

He also urged the governor to make a case for increased funding of the Public Works  Corporation from the proceeds of the petroleum tax out of which 60 percent is  supposed to be shared among states’ rehabilitation agencies.

Also speaking at the event, the Special Adviser on Works and Infrastructure,  Engineer Ganiyu Johnson who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Office  of Infrastructure, Engineer Lateef Olokunola commended the level of repairs being  done round the state by the agency.

He urged the agency to embark upon the training of local engineers in the 57 Local  Government Councils and Local Council Development Areas so that they can assist the  councils to face local roads while the agency faces state roads.

The governor later cut the tape to commission the new plants and equipment before  being conducted round for an inspection of the items."[/b]
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/11/12/lagos-has-built-more-roads-than-ghana-sleone-%E2%80%94fashola/

Governor Fashola
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[b]"A paternity battle with Mick Jagger and a fight against cancer. Life has thrown a lot at Sixties icon Marsha Hunt. But, as she tells Jenny Johnston, she wouldn't have it any other way.

Marsha Hunt apologises for the fact that her hair is a little wayward today, which is odd. How wayward can a half-inch crop be? And surely Marsha, of all people, should know about truly wild hair. Hers, after all, provided one of the most iconic images of the 1960s, pictured in all its untameable Afro glory as she posed Unclad to promote the ground-breaking musical Hair.

Still, 40 years on, she is in a London photographic studio, tutting at herself in the mirror and smoothing down the tiniest of strands.

'Normally, I wet it down and blast it with the hairdryer, so it lies flat against my head,' she says. 'But I didn't do that this morning, so these little bits stick straight up. Do you see?' Er, no. But let's give the lady some slack here.

Four years ago, Marsha had no hair at all. It went, courtesy of her own scissors, before the chemotherapy drugs kicked in. She threw a hair-cutting party and let her granddaughter, Mazie, take the first lock. Mick Jagger - father of her daughter, Karis - cut another for her.

With similar chutzpah, she drew a flower on her bosom for the doctors who were to operate on her.

Marsha, actress, singer, model, campaigner, is that kind of woman. Now, with her bosom cancer in remission, the hair has started to grow back and she could have it wild and carefree again, but chooses not to. 'Short hair is truly liberating,' she says with the widest of smiles. 'I don't think I will ever grow it again.'

Of course, surviving cancer changes a person. So does reaching the age of 62, when so many of your contemporaries haven't, through drugs,
disease or hard living. But the chasm between what she represented then, and who she is now, still seems, on the surface at least, vast.

She's in London promoting a forthcoming exhibition of portraits by the late Patrick Lichfield, the man who 'made' her. As well as taking those promotional photographs for Hair, Lichfield shot Marsha for Vogue, which was just as ground-breaking.

'The pictures were supposed to be for the cover, which would have made me the first black woman on the front page of Vogue,' she recalls. 'It didn't happen, but there was a huge spread inside. In those days, it was quite something.'

I ask why she holds Lichfield in such high esteem, and the answer is a surprising one. 'I think it was because he was such a gentleman. He never made a pass at me. We had a strange relationship. We weren't friends or anything, but he genuinely took an interest in my life. I think I expected him to be aloof, superior. But he was nothing of the sort. He treated this little negro girl from the US with the utmost respect.'

How touching that it was the apparent lack of intimate interest in her that Marsha remembers.She admits that sex defined her back then.

'You couldn't be a woman in your 20s in London at that time and not be part of the intimate revolution. I was all t**s and bum, and that was
an expression of liberation. I thought it was my duty to take my clothes off, to show that women no longer had to hide.'

The notoriety was good for her. The musical Hair brought her a record contract and a raft of acting roles on film and stage. She was feted, adored, wooed - most famously by Jagger. The fact that she bore his child gave her a place inthe history books and added frisson. Mick we will come to later.

'I ain’t gonna talk about him,' she warns, so I steer her to the other juicy stuff: the drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll. She giggles at my assumption of such hedonism.

'Do you know the only reason I did so many of the promotional shots for Hair was that I was the only one who would get up early for them? I had the knack of looking as though I was doing all that, but I never was - at least not as much as you'd assume. Drugs? Ha! They were shooting us up with vitamin pills because we were so tired. The truth is, I didn't take drugs after the age of 19.'

What happened at 19? 'I came to London, and then I was too worried about being caught and deported,' she grins.

Gosh. Well, what about the sex then? There must have been a lot of that - much of it with Jagger, some, by all accounts, with Marc Bolan. She also had a 'glorious' fling with Paul Nicholas, her Hair costar, who is still a good friend. Was it simply the case that everyone was sleeping with everyone?

She isn't exactly offended to be asked, but there is a note of irritation in her voice when she says, 'It was 40 years ago.' I ask if she minds being defined by that sex and drug-fuelled era, and, perhaps surprisingly, she does. It peeves a little that people still expect her to be all about that decade's intimate attitude.

'Because I don't think that assumption was ever right in the first place. I'd been to university. I had opinions, beliefs, intellectual strength. But, because of what happened, people thought I was some dunderhead. I was dismissed as a rock chick. You know the thing. You say my name and they think 'hot pants, Sixties, Jagger' all that s**t. But the reality is that I've probably had much less sex over my lifetime than most women my age. I've been celibate for the past nine years, for starters. I was in a relationship before that, but I was celibate for 17 years before him.'

These days, Marsha is a talented writer. Her latest book, Sex With Jimi Hendrix, might sound like a kiss-and-tell, but it is anything but.

Marsha never actually met Hendrix, but they shared a record label, and - it turned out - a social history.

'Like Jimi, I was 'negro' when I came over in 1966, and in 1968, I became 'black'. But I lived past him to become 'African-American'. I was fascinated by the man, but also the age in which he and I lived. I wanted to chart the changes we’d witnessed. I was constantly discovering things about my own racial history - and it blew me away.'

She is at her most effervescent when she is talking about being part of that revolution.

'And it was a revolution, make no mistake. intimate. Racial. None of us had a clue about how much it was changing the world. We did make a difference, in a way that you just don't see these days. Guantanemo Bay simply could not have happened then. We would not have allowed it.'

Suddenly, she throws Jagger's name into the conversation, explaining why she fell for him, and it doesn't seem to have had much to do with the sex.

'He was educated. He was a radical. He was not the man people think they know now. Somehow, that all gets lost over time.'

Had Marsha been a different type of woman, she would be consumed with bitterness about the way Jagger treated her. When they met, he was obsessed with her, and it is widely thought that he wrote one of the Rolling Stones' most famous songs, Brown Sugar, about her. But when Karis was born, in 1970, Jagger refused even to acknowledge paternity, much less play any part in his daughter's life. He only recognised Karis as his daughter more than a decade later, and then only after a bitter court battle by Marsha.

Today, Karis and her father are close, but the rejection was all too public. At the time, Marsha was determined that her daughter should know her father. Heartbreakingly, she even told Karis 'that's your daddy' when Rolling Stones songs came on the radio.

I ask if she felt any guilt for bringing Karis into the world in what now seems like such uncertain circumstances.

Marsha shakes her head. 'No. What happened was not my fault. Besides, whatever happened with Mick, she went on to have such a fabulous life.
There were uncles and friends of mine who adored her. I never thought she was deprived.

'In fact, now I think she is incredibly lucky. She could have had all kinds of fathers and she had Mick. Now he can really appreciates who she is and what she has become. I know that shewould be a different person had he been around all the time, and, in a way, with hindsight, I can say, "Wasn't it lucky that he wasn't there."'

I ask if she means it was lucky that Jagger wasn't there to screw up Karis's life.

She nods, and says, "She was 12 - formed - when they got to know each other. What are you going to do to a child of 12? You are going to have some influence, but there is already some core stuff pulled together by then.'

That's quite a damning opinion of Jagger, then? She shakes her head.

'It's not about him. It's about his position, his lifestyle, his career, his choice of friends. I mean, my daughter had an incredibly stable upbringing. I read to her every night, sang to her. I have no idea how different things would have been if Mick had been part of her life, but I know that the influence of celebrity and all that goes with it is difficult for children.'

She tells me that she went out of her way to turn Jagger into a hero figure for her daughter - 'as all dads should be' - even when she felt like screaming about what a rubbish father he was.

'When you have a child, you put them first, whatever. All your own feelings have to take second place. How I raised Karis is now what I'm proudest of.

Today, she is part of the infamously convoluted Jagger clan, and seemingly happy to be so. She waves away any notion that there is anything unhealthy about the way the Jaggers live.

'No, these are siblings who share a notorious father, but they deal with each other in beautiful ways. All the kids were at Karis's wedding, you know. Jade (Jagger's daughter with his first wife, Bianca) was the maid of honour. I remember standing up and saying something important - that modern life has created new kinds of families, and the crucial thing is to do the best you can with that. And things have worked out pretty well. Mick is a grandfather, and he's a good one. Do I have regrets about getting involved with him? Are you kidding?'

This is a woman who has learned to accentuate the positive. Four years ago she was diagnosed with bosom cancer, but dealt with losing a bosom in her own inimitable way.

'I said, "So what? I still have my life, which is what matters."'

She has refused all offers of a surgical reconstruction and refuses to wear a false bosom. She concedes, though, that being single at the
point of diagnosis helped her cope.

'I kind of think that it is easier to cope with the physical aspects if you are on your own. Also, I could be stronger if I didn't have anyone else's fears and worries to deal with. And I'd long since discovered that I don’t need a man to be happy. I'm pretty good at being on my own.'

Well, to a point. A man did come into her life at this time, but in the most unconventional way. She started corresponding with an old boyfriend, whose email address she had come across accidentally.

'My friend had sent me a message, and I was scrolling through the other people she had sent it to when this name popped up. I thought, "Is that the same guy?" So I sent him a message. And that was the start of it.'

By 'it' she means a passionate love affair with a man she still hasn't met since college. I ask how you can have a grand passion online, but she insists it can be done. 'I truly loved him. I found myself longing for the next time we could communicate. I asked my doctor, "Could being in love affect my recovery. Is it good for me?" And he looked at me as if I was mad. But I do believe it helped.'

And it was something that could have become real. It almost did. Once, they came close to meeting up, arranging to meet in a New York restaurant.

'It was the oddest thing. He didn't turn up. Afterwards, I discovered an email from him saying, "I haven't brought your number with me. Call me now. I will be at such-and-such a restaurant at such-and-such a time." Now, I think it was fate that we didn't meet.'

Now, it might be too late. She says she has fallen out of passion with her cyber lover. The final straw was his breathless email informing her that he was planning to move to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and take up tango dancing, of all things. The Marsha Hunt of old might have leapt at the chance, but that Marsha is well and truly gone.

'Please!' she laughs. 'I told him I tangoed at 20; I don't need to tango at 62. At 62, I want to potter in the garden, grow vegetables. I
just want to grow old. Dancing? Done it. Let's move on.'"[/b]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1062630/Marsha-Hunt-Im-glad-Mick-didnt-help-raise-girl.html

Mick Jagger & Marsha Hunt's daughter(Karis Jagger)
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http://www.rocklopedia.com/2008/04/11/karis-jagger/

Marsha hunt
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[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=769210.msg9290757#msg9290757 date=1317952182]this black white relationship issue is getting too much attention imo.

ok, let every black male date/marry only white or non-black women.

i hope everyone will be happy now?

problem solved, now can we start discussing what to do about nigeria's underdevelopment.

potholes, armed robbery everywhere, no light, high poverty levels, etc.[/quote]If you have noticed this thread hasn't gotten much views because it is not relevant to Nigerians, especially in Nigeria because It is the marriage patterns of black americans compared to other blacks of different cultures in America; why should Nigerians care? we have our own problems, to me this type of topic should be on the african american forum because it would have reached more then a 1000 views by now if it was. The only benefit of this thread it will warn people not to bring up threads like this on a african forum, especially a Nigerian forum.