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This should make front page.however this must be politically motivated.

missSexy:
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i would not advise her to tell him anything unless he says something first. 2.5 years apart trust me he has slept with plenty of women

is that what you think?

Some people are educated illiterates

GboGboAye:
u guys r officially the stupidest nigerians in the history of independence!! All of u.
The woman is managing to do sumtin POSITIVE for this country and u wannabe white ppl sit there and judge here horribly. Let me see any of u become EFCC chairman and do half of what she has done.
Retards!

My friend no dey misappropriate yarns.

I love that guy ^^^

oyb:
what are the brothers names?

who is Mrs Ogunsola's husband? abi she is a proficient baby mama ?

how come adeoti does not seem to miss her father or be calling for him to join them?

do you really think that, if these brothers actually existed, mrs ogunsola would not be flashing their pictures at every instant including the gravestones - crying thats hse did not want her daughter to suffer the same fate?


why are the nuclear and extended family silent ?


BS

offtopic - remember[b] elian gonzalez[/b]?

What later happened to him?Did he remain in US or moved back to cuba?

funny thread.

NB wilywily is efik so you guys should not drag igbos into this

Get your husle on

i have decided not to comment on this sanusi issue until the picture becomes clearer.shareholders should forfeit the ownership of banks?

Detained Nigerian girl found trying to strangle herself

Immigration officials detained 10-year-old for second time against advice of experts

* Buzz up!
* Digg it

* Diane Taylor
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 October 2009 16.02 BST
* Article history

A 10-year-old Nigerian girl placed in immigration detention for a second time – despite warnings from experts that she might try to kill herself if she was incarcerated again – has been found trying to strangle herself.

Adeoti Ogunsola was spotted by guards at Tinsley House immigration removal centre (IRC) near Gatwick airport early on Sunday in the kitchen of the family quarters. The family's asylum claim has been refused and they are facing removal to Nigeria on Thursday.

Adeoti told the guards she would rather die in England than in Nigeria, where she believes her life will be at risk if she is returned. Her mother, Clementina Ogunsola, 35, whom she was sharing a room with, was asleep at the time. Mother and daughter were taken to hospital and later returned to Tinsley House.

"Adeoti is in a very bad state," said Clementina. "It's terrible to see her like this. She's crying a lot and has completely broken down."

The case comes at a time when there is mounting opposition to the government's policy of detaining child asylum seekers.

The Ogunsolas were detained in Yarl's Wood IRC in June and were later released. A report from a psychotherapist warned that Adeoti was suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of being detained and warned that if she was detained again her condition was so severe that she might attempt to kill herself.

Clementina was detained again in August but refused to reveal the whereabouts of Adeoti to prevent her being redetained. It later emerged that she was in the care of an aunt and for a while social services and the UK Border Agency (UKBA) allowed this arrangement to stand.

However, early last Thursday UKBA officials raided the aunt's home and dragged out a screaming Adeoti. Social services were present but Adeoti's aunt was not allowed to accompany her. A distressed Adeoti was reunited with her mother in Tinsley House and tried to kill herself three days later.

In a letter to the family's solicitors, UKBA officials said the circumstances were exceptional. The letter is dated 17 October and was sent hours before Adeoti made the suicide attempt. It quotes Dr Geraint Thomas, who acknowledged Adeoti's distress.

"Whilst aware of the potential for suicidal feelings that she may act upon we are maintaining close observations of her and believe we are able to safely maintain her within this environment," Thomas states in the UKBA letter.

Adeoti is a pupil at St Mary's Catholic primary school in Gillingham, Kent. The headteacher, Bernadette Long, is supporting the family's fight to remain in the UK.

She said Adeoti was "clearly traumatised" by her detention in June. "She was inconsolable about the thought of deportation in September 2008 when she first heard of it," said Long. "Since then Adeoti has had unsettled periods due to the worry and uncertainty. This has gone on for a whole year now and is an unnecessary act of mental cruelty which is affecting her emotional and mental wellbeing."

There have been many campaigns to end the detention of children in the UK, which currently occurs at a rate of 2,000 a year. Labour MP Chris Mullin is sponsoring an early day motion urging the government to adopt more humane arrangements for monitoring children whom UKBA wishes to remove from the country.

David Wood, strategic director of UKBA's criminality and detention group, said: "Treating children with care and compassion is a priority for the UK Border Agency.

"Whenever we take decisions involving children, their welfare comes first. That's why we have transformed our children's policy, ensuring in law a commitment to protect youngsters and keep them safe from harm. Their welfare is regularly monitored and medical staff are on site and their detention is reviewed.

"When the independent courts find a family has no need for protection we expect them to return home. If they refuse to leave voluntarily we have no choice but to enforce their removal, and this can include detaining children, but only as a very last resort."

Frank Arnold, clinical director of the Medical Justice Network, said: "The evidence is that this girl was redetained by UKBA against expert advice and retraumatised, causing severe harm. Our independent doctors have seen more than 20 children whose purely administrative detention has damaged them beyond any reasonable justification. The abusive jailing of innocent children should cease."

Clementina and Adeoti fear that if they return to Nigeria their lives will be at risk from a cult which allegedly killed two of Clementina's brothers. They are also concerned that Adeoti will be at risk of female genital mutilation from family members, which Clementina was forced to undergo.

The family's lawyers are seeking a stay of the removal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/21/detained-nigerian-girl-strangle-immigration

[quote author=Aloy~Emeka link=topic=342281.msg4792716#msg4792716 date=1256402706]Antonio Fernandez

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The billionaire African diplomat Antonio Deinde Fernandez has already spent more than £200,000 transforming his seven-storey townhouse by applying 1,000 books of gold leaf to the ornate cornicing and balusters.

The Central African Republic’s ambassador to the United Nations travels across the world in one of six private jets and enjoys being chauffeured around in a pink Rolls-Royce. When dining out, he takes over the entire restaurants to avoid encountering riffraff. A Yoruba tribal chief, his family motto is "agbomeji kii momi nikoto", meaning "two rams cannot drink from the same bucket". He is a proud member of the ogboni fraternity.

Now the flamboyant Nigerian has astonished neighbours by asking for - and being granted - permission to build an orangery in his back garden. In his native Lagos Island, he has built a tower named after himself.

Alongside business interests, Ambassador Fernandez has a diplomatic career stretching back to 1966 and is the Central African Republic’s UN representative. He is on first-name terms with several world leaders, doubles as the republic’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, and is head of the oil company Petro-Inett.

But his career has not been without controversy. The ambassador has a long track record of unconventional business deals in Africa and is said to have made powerful enemies. In 1989, he tried, unsuccessfully, to use his diplomatic immunity to prevent his former American wife from being awarded title to the couple’s £4 million estate in New York as part of a divorce settlement.

The wrangle went as far as the Oval Office, with former President George Bush being briefed on the appeal.[/quote]I love this man.

na wa ooo becomerich

Ujujoan:
What's with people's obsession with Ngige sef?

Everybody knew he had to fight all through his tenure. As far as I'm concerned, democracy is all about identifying priorities and focusing on them. Ngige did that with the roads. We have cause to beleive that if he's so-called God-fathers have left him alone, he wuld have been more focused to do other things.

Maybe that's why people prefer him to Obi. Because Obi has been seating on his ass for as long as he has been dere and the only projects he can boast of have been done haphazardly !

Brick machine system? Are we moving forward or backward?

What is wrong with brick machine system?

Their faces

SapeleGuy:
The fact that I speak english does not make me english. Just as you speaking hausa will not make you hausa. Language doesn't prove origin.

"Strictly speaking, igbo is a linguistic group or a language, not a tribe, [b]as all Ibo-speaking people do not claim origin from any common ancestor"[/b]This quote is from Sir Dennis Osadebe

I hope you know that the Aro igbos _{if u know them} have lineages and contacts with efiks and ibibios to the extent that some of their name sounds efik or ibibio but that has not stopped them from being igbos.

olafolarin:
This thread is really interesting.But more shocking is the display of lack of intelligence.
Chief Awolowo is a national hero.He founded african youth movement in Uk with Zik.
With proceeds from cocoa he built africa's first TV stattion,built University Ibadan and IFe((Premier Universities).He pursued free education at all levels nationally but because his party won in Western region,the people of the region are the most educated in Nigeria today.
Even Zik decamped to Shagari party when Awlowo was in prison.

There is no doubt about Chief awolowo being a national hero.He is one of the best Nigeria has ever had.Nigeria's best brains today enjoyed his free education policy and thats a direct challenge to the british aristocracy(which sees education as a revenue earner).

The Old western Region(including todays delta,edo and bayelsa states)enjoyed tremendous educatrional and infracstructural progress because of Awlowo's ideals,polity,politics and policy.And that is imcomparable in the whole country.

The Ibos migrated to West on daily basis to do business,get free education,medical care,etc all these are unobtainable in the east.Eastern region would have enjoyed the same progress and development but for Zik's decision to pitch tent with the Hausas thereby SELLING THE COMING IBO GENERATIONS "BIRTHRIGHT".
It is a shame that most easterners of Ibo estraction in their mid 30s can not read and write.can not express themselves in pure english.I still cant believe that Zik will allow
his people to be forced to pay for education and those that can not pay are thrown out or simply stayed out of classrooms.Most Ibos simply just stayed out of classrooms and the result is evident in todays high % of illiterates amongst Ibos within 25-40 age bracket.Trading became a succour and they went into it with full vigour.selling Okrika,spare parts,food stuffs,electronics,etc will only keep ones head above waters when other region especially west and of late North are producing engineers,doctors,etc who are potential national and world leaders.
Most Ibos of thought knew that ZIk did them more arm(in that regard) than good.
Awolowo was right when he said the Western region can stay on its own without East or North.He achieved his greatest with proceeds from cocoa.He channeled his procceeds to the actualisation of his vision because he knew that education is light.

Awolowo,Zik,sardauna,Ahamadu Bello are all national heroes and should be treated as such.But amongst all,Awolowo stands tall because of his vision and that vision still inspires todays politicians notably Governor fashola Of Lagos state.,Suswam of Gombe(who enjoyed free duaction too)amongst others.

You must be living in a cave for making this statement.

Quoting Ruben Abati

"Nigeria is ruled by incompetent people,the people are complex and the country itself is a quetion mark"

MrCrackles:
Topic
My state governor is not in charge so it is hard to say whether he is performing or not!

U get state?  

haha. . . .nigeria . . . country of settlement.

It is better we start at home before venturing outside.

Nigeria 2009: Trouble looms
Sports Oct 18, 2009 By Onochie Anibeze

“Will this championship still kick off on Saturday? Things are not going on well,” one official said on phone from Calabar yesterday.

“We need information. I have been involved in past events hosted by Nigeria. Things were tough but this one in particular is confusing. There are no activities. Everything is stalled. They say that there’s no money,” one official complained from Kaduna.


“The problem didn’t start now. It started long before now. We kept asking Abuja to direct us but they have not been doing so. They said money is their problem and there were no clues on how we can raise money on our own,” a top member of the Kano sub-seat of the Local Organising Committee told us.


The draw for the FIFA U17 World Cup held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. L-R, Engr. Sani Ndanusa, Minister of Sports, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, VP recieving the U17 trophy from Mr. Jack Warner, FIFA, VP

“The government of Lagos State has done all that they are expected to do. The only things left undone are the ones the Main Local Organising Committee (LOC) is expected to do. Time is against us. I don’t know how fair it will be to bother Lagos with the responsibilities of LOC. But we know that LOC is looking for money.” This was the way an official told their Lagos story at the weekend.
“We are expecting money. Since we started, only N20m has been allocated to Abuja that will host nine matches including the opening and closing matches. We hope

that they will approve money for us to start work,” said a top official from Abuja.



These reports came from the centres that will host FIFA Under 17 World Cup. They are not the type of reports expected on a world championship that will kick off this Saturday. But this is Nigeria and it may not be unusual to those who have been following trends in the country. From getting the venues ready to putting structures in place for organisation, there have been mounting problems that are already foretelling crisis. FIFA officials got a little dose of it when some of them arrived a few days ago and there were no official vehicles for them.


Japan and Switzerland are expected to arrive today and as at last night the two buses assigned to them were The Young Shall Grow buses. They had no airconditioners. In world championships of this magnitude, new buses and new cars are assigned to teams. The name of such championships is usually inscribed on the vehicles. Unless there are last minute changes, teams will ride in The Young Shall Grow buses and the like all over the country. There are hopes that the governors of the host cities may intervene. But transportation is a responsibility of the LOC.

“I think that the money released to the LOC has been exhausted and they need more funds to get the championship going. If nothing happens, the crisis will be huge and Nigeria will be disgraced,” one football official said, adding “trouble is looming, the Federal Government should rescue the LOC.”

But one insider said that “yes, let the Presidency help but the LOC must account for the money already released to them because what was released was enough to take care of some of the problems we are encountering now.”
FIFA vice President, Jack Warner, had said in Cairo during the just concluded Under 20 World Cup that Nigeria should learn from the good organisation Egypt put up. The statement was an indictment on the LOC. It followed the reports he had been receiving about Nigeria’s preparedness.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/18/nigeria-2009-trouble-looms/#comments


Mehn naija sweet no be small.

Sagamite:
Someone is going to build the "largest" ICT mall in a city of less than 1.5m people (it is actually <800K but lets add the populations of those in close towns in the suburb states)?

Did anyone engage their brains when doing the location strategy to maximise the revenue potential of the LARGEST mall?

Why not at a place with a mixture of the highest population, highest disposable income and most use of ICT infrastructure?

Why will I travel all the way from Lagos to Abuja to get ICT components when the logistic cost alone would be significant.

Another white elephant in the incubator. Waste of money.

That is how some morons in the Telecomms sector located their call centre in Abuja and are paying the call centre staff N70K per month.

How do they expect these staff to afford Abuja? Why couldn't they locate it at a cheaper location like a town in Nassarawa state which is close to Abuja where if they paid N70K the staff would be satisfied, live more comfortably and potentially be more content? The amount they would even pay for the land purchase/lease in Nassarawa compared to Abuja could mean they could increase the staff salary.

If I was appointed Strategy Director in such a firm, I would sack everyone involved in that decision. Stupid plunkers.

Saga u wicked

Creating more poverty.

Thuggish ruggish