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shymexx: All your founding founders were TRIBALISTS, except the ones from Lagos, and the Ransome Kuti family(including Wole Soyinka)... I still don't know why they formed a country together - when they know darn well they can't live together...

cannot disagree with you on the tribalists of a thing.never knew it was okotie eboh that brought julius berger to nigeria according to the narrator

mehn this olugbenga must some sort of a librarian to get these footage.

sheyguy: Asha 80, you are here hating on Odua people. Aren't you the same person self-busted dude on a thread for mocking the Igbos some time back?

you must be high on expired cocaine.

is there anyway i can download this?

Sky Blue: Listening to Sardauna's northenisation policy of the civil service in the north was a tad shocking. 'If we can't get a northerner to fill the post on a permanent basis we'll try and get a white man on contract, if we can't get a white man on contract, THEN, we'll consider other Nigerians'.

Seems to me like the beginings of quota system and federal character. I just wonder why some of these characters are so romanticised in Nigerian history.

so you did not know about this till now?

the pic is actually from last year's lagos flood.

One Woman Killed In Fresh Bombing Of Drinking Joint In Jalingo, Taraba State
Posted: October 5, 2012 - 22:52

A fresh bomb blast occurred this evening at a local drinking joint in Mallam Joda area of Jalingo, Taraba state. This blast happened at about 7.30 pm local time near an NTA station.

SaharaReporters sources say that one woman was killed, and five kids were injured. Police spokesman could not be reached to confirm the casualties.

Only two days ago, a bomb blast occurred at a beer parlor in Doruwa area, a stone throw from the state ministry of works killing four people.

In recent days unknown gunmen have been attacking local beer joints and entertainment spots like beer parlors and brothels in Nigeria's northwest, such attacks are the hallmarks of the islamist sect Boko Haram.

However, the sect has not claimed responsibility for recent recent attacks.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/one-woman-killed-fresh-bombing-drinking-joint-jalingo-taraba-state

aryzgreat: Am not suprised, if they could sell out MKO to be killed, who is Ribadu then? their real name is 2 face, they can backstab at the 9th hour and call it political SOPHISTICATION! SMH

brother to be honest i am not too sure about this story.after all acn won is osun state abi no be so?this acn kaduna guy needs to bring proof otherwise the story might be a hard sale.

men jalingo used to be such a peaceful place.

ACN Sold Ribadu’s Presidency Bid To Goodluck Jonathan For N16 Billion, Says Embattled Kaduna ACN Chairman
Posted: October 5, 2012 - 13:52
By SaharaReporters, New York

The embattled chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kaduna State, Alhaji Mohammed Musa Soba, has described the national leadership of the party as a “rogue leadership,” and accused them of selling the candidature of its presidential candidate in the 2011 election to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for one hundred million dollars.

In that election, the ACN states voted for President Jonathan, not their own candidate, Malam Nuhu Ribadu.

“A rogue leadership is one that collected one hundred million dollars (N16 Billion) from the PDP, delivered the south-west to the PDP in the 2011 presidential election and shamelessly turn round to accuse the PDP of corruption and stealing of public funds,” said Alhaji Soba, whose removal was announced by the ACN spokesperson, Lai Mohammed.

Firing back at the national leadership in a statement sent to SaharaReporters, Alhaji Soba claimed that he is being witch-hunted for asking them to explain why they sold the bid for the presidency.

He described ACN as lacking a Board of Trustees and visionary leaders and always abusing its own constitution while shamelessly labeling others as clueless and dictatorial.

“We challenge Lai Mohammed and the national secretary of the party, Senator Lawal Shuaibu, to tell the whole world why state chapters like Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, Cross Rivers, Bayelsa, AkwaIbom, Nassarawa, Plateau, Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Taraba and Kaduna states are all facing national leadership induced crises,” he said.

Alhaji Soba insists that he is still legally the chairman of the Kaduna ACN, stating, “Their own decision on the Kaduna leadership crisis is a nullity, void ab initio, and an exercise in futility for its violent conflict with the party’s constitution, NEC’s resolution of May 11, 2011 and all the civilised norms of a democratic practice.”

He also described as empty, the threats by the ACN national leadership to sue the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission for recognizing him.

“The threats by some national officers of the ACN to drag the Kaduna State government and the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (SIECOM) to court to stop the forthcoming local government election over the latter’s recognition of Barr. Mohammed Musa Soba as the duly elected chairman of the party in Kaduna State, is an empty threat and an emotional blackmail that exposes Lai Mohammed as an impostor whose intellect has been badly infected by intellectual virus to the extent that he does not know the definitions of law and democracy anymore,” he said.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/acn-sold-ribadu%E2%80%99s-presidency-bid-goodluck-jonathan-n16-billion-says-embattled-kaduna-acn-c?page=2

shymexx: You can never be a 5-star general... Ojukwu was wrong to go to war ill-prepared an without due consultation with the other "neutral" stakeholders(ethnic groups/tribes) in the South...

Art of War by Sun Tzu

- The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

- The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
(Something Ojukwu never did)...


I'm out...

not interested in being in the army let alone being a general.your statement here does not controvert the fact that nigeria is in a big mess and all the noise about break nigeria,restructure nigeria bla bla bla would never happen until someone who has balls can enforce any of the two or the whole citizens of the country would continue to wait for eternity for a great crises in the mold of pre-67 or june 12 to happen.

afam4eva: You mean you'll prepare for ten years for a war? Even though you know that you're not a life regional premier. You'll probably be outsted in a few years. Meanwhile, while you're preparing, your people will keep being massacred, lef, right and center but you'll still be preparing. I bow for you oga.

Note that it has never been Ojukwu's decision to secede from the beginning. All this was brought to the fore Post Aguiyi-Ironsi and the events that came thereafter.

The same thing we accuse Ojukwu for doing is the same thing that no one has the balls to do today despite the fact that things are worse of that they were pre-biafra. We keep shouting break-Nigeria from left, right and center and no one seems to be stepping up to the plate. The moment another Ojukwu steps up from the east, thirty years down the line, he will be labelled as the worse thing to happen to Nigeria.

the bolded is probably the best comment on this thread.let everyone keep deceiving themselves and be waiting for someone to bell the cat.

money has a way causing confusion and bringing betrayal.

warning has been giving now and not later they will start giving excuses.

hehe o boy e be like say vex don catch you well well

spyder880: Both are, but Enugu north still has the most of better amenities and planning.

what about enugu east?

it seems the whole enugu(including enugu north and south) is now totally urbarnised?

Water level rises along Abuja-Lokoja road
On October 1, 2012 · In News
9:05 pm


By Okey Ndiribe

ABUJA – There are indications that the flood, which submerged a section of the Abuja-Lokoja highway two weeks ago, has risen. Also, a large number of trucks conveying petroleum products and other goods from different parts of the country have been trapped at the submerged section of the highway.

Some of the truck drivers, who spoke to Vanguard, said they had been trapped at the spot for a week. Travellers on their way to Abuja were also stranded at the flooded portion of the road.

Investigations carried out by Vanguard revealed that whereas huge trucks, articulated vehicles and even certain types of sports utility vehicles could drive through the submerged road at the onset of the disaster penultimate week, this was no longer possible yesterday.

Several residents of Lokoja, who spoke to Vanguard, confirmed the development.

The theme for this year’s World Heart Day is One World, One Home, One Heart and it focuses on increasing awareness of Cardiovascular Disease, CVD, among women and children.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/water-level-rises-along-abuja-lokoja-road/

ekt_bear: Cray.

I forget sometimes how big China is and how quickly it is progressing.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443890304578010660186162422.html?mod=e2tw

should we be afraid of domination?

una get time arguing with the fool illicit.imagine his statement below

ok i get u he peronally handled d north and it was effective, hw delegated capable officers to d west and it was successful, but he sent less capable officers to his home region? hmmmmm, dont u smell a rat?

so nzeogwu was from the then eastern region ? such a person illicit is!

cjrane: Enugu is the undisputed capital of SE, i am glad that Gov. Sullivan Chime has taken the pains to continue the development of the city based on its initial master plan. I just wish he would work harder with reviving the coal industry,especially with the plan to build massive power plants to supply cheap electricity to the SE and parts of Benue and Cross River.I hope he completes the Enugu International Conference Center,with the attached 5 star Hotel and the Igbo history Museum there.Sullivan is an asset to his state.I am just amazed at his humility of working for Enugu State without making noise on the pages of newspapers.He is indeed a gem.

i am not sure he can do that without permission of the fg because of our kind of federalism.

MOORCH MOORE: why flood in Niger, what happens to the dredging of the river

maybe the damage would have been much worse if the river was not dredged

illicit: oponu
make a point, bring it on, r u scared?

to be honest i'll rather engage a sheep in an argument that engaging you.

illicit: on whose side did ojukwu fought durin d 1st millitary coup? hausas(N.A) or igbo(coupists)? he fought to keep d country together but later fell out cos he felt cheated, yes or no?
one of d reasons ojukwu was at loggerheads wit d fed govt was cos gowon was his junior, true or false? which means he very much wanted to become d next head of state if brig ogundipe wont be....
he made himself biafran warlord but fear for his life cos pple like banjo, ifeajuna, alale, agbam, kaduna are around, did he get rid of dem or not?
the nigeria he once fought to unite and later to divide cos he was shortchanged, he later wanted to rule( power freak?), if yorubas r d only corrupt nigerians, what facilitated his(ojukwus) rapid promotion among d rank and file of the N.A do u own it to his education? aint it cos of his fathers wealth? yes or no?
How did ojukwu later came to recover all his properties in lagos after d war inspite of d former biafran populace? if yorubas are thieves n d most corrupt, why did it happen, yet u pple say yorubas gained economically durin and after the war? dont always be tribalistic in thinking, war aint fair and will never be.

signs of the failed educational system in nigeria.guy just let it rest rather than exposing your ignorance.

it is true.just saw it on channels news.

acidtalk: Show us picture now.
Make I use the picture drink Quaker Oat.

there was no pic from the source i got it from.the only pic there was just a roll of smoked fish.

ekt_bear: Indeed. Property taxes....homes, office buildings, privately owned land, etc taxed. This money is then used to pay for schools, county police, etc.

It was through the property taxes that my parents paid that I went to school.

privately owned land .i am not sure that is done in nigeria.i have always wanted to know how the federalism in america works.which level of governmet collects personal income taxes and company taxes?

GAR3TH: Taxes

thanx

Smoked fish factory springs up in Anambra
Posted by: Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, Nnewi Posted date: September 28, 2012 In: News Extra | comment : 0
Smoked fish factory springs up in Anambra

Something great is happening in Anambra State, but it is not in Awka, the capital, or Onitsha, the bustling commercial city. A fish factory in Adazi Nnukwu, some 20 minutes’ drive from the seat of government, has raised the profile of both the community and the state, providing jobs for youths and putting hunger at bay in many families.

There is more. The factory has the capacity to save Southeast fish traders the trouble of sourcing their merchandise from such far-flung places as Maiduguri, capital of Borno State. And, thanks to the plant’s hygiene standards, fish connoisseurs can vouch for the health of what they eat.

Adazi Nnukwu, Anaocha Local Government Area of the state, has probably made history, hosting arguably the first quality smoked fish processing plant in the country.

It is the handiwork of a geologist turned farmer, Mr Emeka Martins Iloghalu.

Newsextra paid him a visit, discovering that many youths from the region will be taken off the streets as the facility grows.

The smoked fish are well packaged, most of which sourced from the same facility, although its owner says it needs more.

The company, Tee Martins Aquaculture, produces dry fish, which are free of insects and sand.

Iloghalu left his well-paying job at Shell and oil service firms overseas to return to the rustic village of Adazi-Nnukwu to engage in fish farming.

He reckons that his fish are unique.

He said: “Our model here is that we don’t sell life fish because we don’t even meet our market demand of dry fish, hence we are looking for co-operation to serve the Southeast market and beyond. Even at this moment we have not gone totally mechanical because we installed 160kg drier plant that dries wet fish weight per batch.

“We need resources and expertise; that’s why we are training people to take over but we need managers that we can trust and develop to ensure youths are engaged while we develop other areas. We are proposing to erect our new plant in a 33-ft structure, two-storey building vertical expansion. We are installing a 750kg drier to ensure that our customers are satisfied with quality dry fish well packaged.

“I encourage people to go into fish farming to enable us meet the demand as our own fish pond is not enough to supply our fish requirements. We buy from various fish ponds around to meet up, so if fish farmers increase we will be able to buy them and meet up demand’’.

Iloghalu’s passion for the business inspired his wife, a lawyer, Mrs Justina Iloghalu and their children Emmanuel, Deborah and Esther to understudy the head of the family. They aslo appear to have mastered virtually everything in the fish factory, especially the pond.

Iloghalu also encourages youths to engage in fish farming, saying one female fish can give birth to over 40,000 fish. He adds that with the availability of mobile fish ponds and incubating machines in addition to a ready market, Anambra youths will thrive in the business.

Iloghalu equally advocates the establishment of aquaculture clubs in schools and colleges as a means of promoting fish farming at a minimal cost using mobile fish ponds produced by his company.

“Mobile fish pond is a viable venture and I recommend it for schools and colleges through aquaculture clubs or catfish clubs because once you have experience and acquire the skills through the mobile fish pond, the fund will come and viable ventures will start.

“I can supply the equipment because it can be of great assistance in actualising the MDGs especially with the drilling of boreholes in schools and communities so water is no longer a problem. We can have fish labs and fish farms in schools since there is free water supply. Mobile fish pond can fit into any place and can be set up anywhere. There is no limitation and it can generate N180,000 after every four months with 250 fishes.

“People preparing for retirement and people thirsty to create employment can cue into the mobile fish pond because it is the best way to start preparing for expansion. It is age-friendly and less tasking. I can supply the equipment.

“My drier for now contains 150 fishes in a row in five chambers of 1kg each.”

On why he left his lucrative job, he said: “It is passion that is driving this because I left my job of $15,000 a month and others more than that to return to the village to promote fish farming because if I have this dry plant and fish ponds, I will engage Nigerians and, by that, I am adding value to my people. We have a facility with the bank and we are encouraged by that because we had expected that somebody will say we have not been in Anambra. If we have the expertise we will install our equipment.

“We are operating at about 30 per cent of our installed capacity. It is not bad but not cheery, so the more many engage in mobile fish farming , the better for us. We don’t have enough human resources and expertise but we are looking for them and I am re-strategising hard to share my knowledge with youths like me.

“This pond here can raise 25,000 fishes…in four months. We have the equipment for intensive system but we do between flow through system and intensive system. For fingerlings production we can produce 150,000 to 200,000 fingerlings in four to six weeks.

While in oil services, Iloghalu invented a smart way to interpret depositional environment using core samples. That caused a stir in the oil industry and he was invited to Spain to talk to oil decision makers and chiefs at an International conference. He did it with Shell, then Slumberger hired him, offering higher wages and took him to every continents except Australia.

His passion was in the operating system and the arrangement was to have a one and half-year patent but was not getting to Research centres as agreed. The job became a routine for him and he resigned to avoid being frustrated.

He said the “only logical thing was to invest at home” and he experimented hatching fish, raising them to table size, harvest and dry.

He has a special scheme for NYSC members to teach them to become successful fish farmer, even with mobile fish pond.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news-extra/smoked-fish-factory-springs-up-in-anambra/

GAR3TH: This is just ludicrous. Were will the funds to run and manage these additional 27 LGAs (57 LGAs in total) come from? The current LGAs have no power or enforcement and pretty much do nothing for the people because they are always broke. Adding an additional 27 to that small state is suicide!!!! The LGA that I live in in america is larger in size than Osun state and has a Larger Fiscal budge than the state. Put that in perspective.

please how do lgas in america generate revenue?