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A Recap Of Some Of The Week’s Headlines     
Written by Uche Nworah   
Friday, 26 June 2009
A Recap of some of the Week’s Headlines

By Uche Nworah

Fellow compatriots, just in case you missed some of the week’s headlines, here is a recap:

Varsity teachers go on indefinite strike. Govt blames oil firms for Niger Delta crises. Robbers kill two policemen. Transcorp chiefs get bail. Uduaghan locks out commissioners, others for late coming. Oshiomole denies role in governors, Harvard pact. Adamawa ANPP sacks chairman. Suspected kidnappers kill two brothers in Akwa Ibom. Police release 185 on bail over Bama unrest. Bauchi NLC rejects reforms, threatens strike. Ekiti shuts news stations, sends workers home. Suswan faults critics of Nigeria Rebrand. Madness in Bama. LAWMA warns reckless compactor- truck drivers. All-share index dips further as market capitalisation drops. Police Service Commission reviews dismissed officers’ cases.Kumuyi decries youth unemployment. Labour protest moves to Maiduguri today. OAUTHC workers give conditions for halting strike. Labour tasks CBN governor on stronger naira. Edo abolishes casualisation in civil service. Nigeria’s attitude to child right is abysmal. U.S. bound passengers stranded at Lagos airport. Senate worries over 2009 budget. (Guardian, Tuesday, June 23rd 2009).



FG can’t beat militants. Orkar Coup: Oyinlola exposes Tony Nyiam. Man, 53, arraigned for fraud. Police kill 2 robbery suspects, arrest one. Abacha’s son set to join PDP. Police clash with kidnapers as doctor regains freedom. N’Delta victims still in hiding. Pro-democracy protest: security beefed up at NASS. Ekiti radio, TV shut indefinitely. Supreme court justice expresses worry over court congestion. NAFDAC engages Interpol to fight illegal importation of fake drugs. Panic grips oil firms in Rivers. Itse Sagay decries election rigging. Bayelsa unmasks ghost workers cartel. JTF probes attack on N4bn dredger. (Daily Sun, Tuesday, June 23rd 2009).

$180m Halliburton scam: Senate flays Aondoakaa for ignoring invitations. Yar’Adua seeks scrapping of REA, backs death penalty. Deregulation: Labour vows to ground economy. SSS arrests Asari-Dokubo as FG, militants meet. Drama as plot to remove Reps’ chief whip fails. 52 Delta communities sue FG, seek N100bn damages. Tokyo arraigned for murder, remanded in police custody. Patients vacate OAUTH a strike bites harder. Assembly declares ‘emergency’ on federal roads in Edo. Ekiti lawmakers, Oni may clash over BSES.EFCC to charge IMO VC to court for fraud. FCC summons PTDF. World Bank’s, CBN governor’s comments rock stock market. Fashola sounds the alarm over low quality telecom masts. Naira dips versus dollar. Ohabunwa laments inadequate funding of drug research. Group tasks Obi on security. Nigeria named 15th most vulnerable country in the world. Sports: Death, ‘accord’ marred league season. (The Punch, Wednesday, June 24th 2009).


We’ll surrender Friday; Bin Laden, Ateke Tom, Boyloaf, other militants pledge. Alleged Forgery: Police quiz Aregbesola’s lawyer. Strike: FG rebuffs ASUU. Niger House crises: PDP fingers IBB. Drug peddling: FG orders security beefed up at airports. Ribadu faces extradition as tribunal fixes trial for Sept 23. Nigerian worker lives on N40 daily –NLC boss. Crises in Oyo NURTW. The fake lecturers of Ebonyi. Groom arrested on wedding day. Fake Mrs. Yar’Adua to remain in prison. Ogun PDP leaders disown speaker. House of Reps and mounting scandals. UK: Married Nigerian clergyman defrocked for having sex with church cleaner. (Nigerian Tribune, Wednesday, June 24th 2009).

Nigeria runs out of crude, refineries shut. World Bank to upgrade Nigeria's airports with $11m. Court okays sack of Ondo council chiefs. Slok Airline ends operations in The Gambia. Oil demand drops to record level since 1982, says BP. Illegal LASTMA officials in Lagos. Relocation of Nigeria's industrial outfits to Ghana worries Lagos lawmakers. FEC suspends new contracts’ approval. Nigeria, Russia sign pact on nuclear energy. Reps to tackle presidency over budget. Labour threatens to join ASUU strike. Two feared killed as drug dealers, NDLEA clash.Obi reads riot act to commercial cyclists.EFCC arrests film institute’s chief. Ekiti NUJ faults media chief over closure of stations. Adamawa health workers begin strike over pay.Residents raise alarm over ‘poisonous Asian rice’ in Sokoto, Kaduna, others. Edo council officials petition House over alleged bribe-for-pay rise.Anambra PDP set to curb Uba’s claim to governorship ticket. Bauchi probes fertiliser firm. PTDF boss bemons dearth of skilled personnel in oil, gas industry. Akpabio gives hospital deadline to explain ex-governor’s death. Europol, others arrest Nigerians for sex traficking. Lawmakers reject new revenue bill. (Guardian, Thursday, June 25th 2009).

2.3GHz: Who is mastermind of alleged forged petition? Court Grants Three Oceanic Bank Staff Accused of Stealing over N24m Bail. MAN Decries Low Performance of Industrial Sector. FRSC, EFCC move against fake driver licences. Crude supplies to refineries ‘ll dry up in 15 days —NNPC. Retired soldiers to protest pension arrears. Killer rice floods Northern states. OGONI NINE: ‘Shell’s compensation can cause friction in future’. Charge electoral offenders with crime against democracy —Justice Ayoola, ICPC boss. N800m consignment trapped at port over absence of cargo handling equipment. Share value dips further by N163bn, as 21 stocks gain. (Vanguard, Thursday, June 25th 2009).





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Fantastic country 

MrCrackles:
It is not too late, and when you go out there, take a bucket with you!
Psssf!!!

@post

Soldier come soldier go.

What

MrCrackles are u professional footballer  

Where are u playing. . . . Arsenal or nationwide      

What was fabiano thinking?

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=277622.msg4089899#msg4089899 date=1245958484]That was football at the very best.
One of me favourites Mexico 86 match. . . . . . .Careca made Joel Bat look like shit. . . . .
Platini, Careca, Socrates, Zico, Tiganna and Girese in one game.
One word: PRICELESS.[/quote]People criticize me whenever i say this. . . . .I feel the footballers of these dayz on the average are less skillful and technical but are have more power and pace when compared to players of 70s and 80s.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=277622.msg4089805#msg4089805 date=1245957330]May God Bless You!!!
I saw their match against Algeria on tape and ma jaws dropped.
As aggressive as the North Africans were on tape, tip-tap/Samba won the day.

Careca?? What won't i give to have his younger version in Man Utd!!! [/quote]One of the best goals in top football i have ever seen was Careca's goal against france in that classic match in mexico86.It was top class one touch/tiptap goal.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=277622.msg4089635#msg4089635 date=1245955408]They play 4-2-3-1 but we all know they always have full-backs who love to bomb forward.
A footie analyst even claimed Brazil's 4-2-3-1 is different to the European 4-2-3-1.
Whether he's right or wrong, Brazil don't play they do these days.

What happened to the tip-tap football/samba style we all know about them?[/quote]Europian influence.Most brazilian players these dayz are based in europe.To me the last time a brazilian senior national team played typical samba was mexico86.

Onye kpom hio feat nigga raw-Comic relief 

Ako na uche

This should make front page.

cabali:
Even as much as abalti is wrong, you dont go comparing 9ice to King sunny Ade

Thats taking our argument overboard.

KSA has more Grammy nominations than 9ice has got albums so kill that noise immediately!!!!

Na my choice be that.Bite me.

semid4lyfe:
Jeez! I can't believe someone actually compared 9ice to KING SUNNY ADE.

@ Asha80

U lucky se we no dey the same room or the kain slap wey I for woze u ehn ,

Bone dat thing

lojik:
@poster
What was the required/emphasized area of competence of the graduates you were recruiting? If you were recruiting engineers or technical experts and you had disqualified 90% because of their poor use of English Language, then you need re-orientation as an employer.

@Mrcrackles

You be yoruba guy let alone nigerian  

This isn't happening!

Ramos is a ram!

MrCrackles:
Santi Cazorla waiting to come on!

That guy is -1.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=287879.msg4083607#msg4083607 date=1245871911]How can u say academic excellence is no longer revered in Nigeria?

Is this what the yahoo-yahoo culture has done to y'all?
Please. . . . .fall in line and stop making baseless claims.
How do people get jobs in Nigeria? Scholarships? Through tribal marks?[/quote]Compared to before especially in the 70s and 80s?I know you are based in uk.

Go to nigeria and stay 6months and interact with lots of nigerian students and tell me how 'serious' they are.

How people get jobs in nigeria?50%merit and 50% 'conection'.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=287879.msg4083549#msg4083549 date=1245871117]I beg to differ. . . . .[/quote]Why dou think so?

Improvised defending by US.

Is vuvuleza affecting the spanish guys    

@post

Most of nigerian pupils and student these days hardly read.Whether it is novels,newspapers.Also lots of teachers in secondary and primary schools are no longer serious with their jobs due to a number of reasons especially the pay factor.

Excellence in academics in nigeria is no longer reverred as before.

ThiefOfHearts:
It really does. Won o reyun gidi fi shey "hero"

Onye kpotakwara nu orobo nke a yiri uzodimgba

tpiah:
I'd save my saliva if I were you. No point arguing with the local village champion aka asha 80.



Her agitated post below sums up her philosophy in life:



the only suitable response for some people is duuh.

Market woman kind of response.1honeybee has given me a more constructive reason.The only thing you know is curse and rant.

I asked for NINETOFIVE because he is more experienced in this kind of things.

If for anything 1honeybee is even countering your post more than mine.

FerrariGP:
its a shame when a graduate who should have passed through both primary and secondary school and can not speak and write good english,
its hogwash to say that becos English is not our mother tongue and a such graduates are excused,
i doubt if anyone on this forum as met a smart kid brought up with any of our native tongue be it yoruba, hausa or igbo etc, so all the argument of teaching kids in native language is crap and we know it,
we all make mistakes while speaking or writing, but when ur english fundamentals are right then correcting is no problem

what scares me most is the popularity of home videos with the upcoming ones, most actors and actresses in naija speak bad english on set and the editting is quite poor, thats one angle we need to check before the young ones get worse than what we have now,

everyone is to blame for this problem, but the onus lies on the students and their  to develop themselves especially during the formative years of primary and secondary school ages,

reading books like and watching right kind of programmes will go a long way, also qualified teachers in our schools will make it alot better,

i really wish programmes eductaive programmes  like sesame street, 321 contact, pigeon street, famous five, etc etc can be brought back on our tv instead of the mexican craps the kids watch this days

Load of rubbish.Speak for yourself.If for anything the group of guys i grew up with it was the ones that were brought up speaking english at homes that were the dullards or as we used to say 'nwa mummy'.

Where is NINETOFIVE when you need him.

1honeybee:
True but is not as if she can speak Warri language either.
Child B actually went to an international primary school and English was the only language they spoke there. Her only source of Igbo language was the short visits to the village and her years in secondary school.

As far as child B was born and went to primary school in an igbo speaking area the likelyhood of her speaking or knowing how to speak igbo is high unlike child A.

1honeybee:
@ asha and tpiah

I think the ability of a child whose parents are Yoruba, living in Owerri and been communicated to at home in English depend on the child. I know two families A and B, both are Igbo. Family A lives in Warri and speak English to their children, children went FGC around the same area they live but the children only understand a little bit of their Igbo language and can't speak it.
Family B on the other hand live in Abia, communicate with their children in English, children went to FGC in Akwa-ibom and they can speak their Igbo language fluently.
I asked a child from family B how she learnt her language, she said she learnt from friends and they go to their village as well so she was able to learn from the grandmother.
Child from family A on the other hand said she believed English was all she had to understand and therefore didn't have interest in other languages until now.

Mind you warri is not an igbo town or city.The child B was born and brought up in Abia an igbo state.

tpiah:
did his parents drop from Pluto or dont they have Yoruba speaking relations?

Which Yoruba extended family has only English speaking people and no other? 0 percent. Living in Calabar and having English as your first language is no barrier to learning Yoruba if your parents are so inclined.

I didnt say I'm not getting your point about the child speaking whatever language they're taught at home, but that's not the only way to learn a language.

What do you mean inclined?If they are so inclined why weren't they speaking it to the kids when they are growing up.You better start facing reality.How long will the relations live with them?one,two months and that is it.

What if the man did not have relations staying long living with them.You have to start facing reality of what is happening in nigeria at the moment.

tpiah:
I understand its your time of month therefore you must fight everywhere because of Love Machine shortage.

You're mentioning Kunle and remi. Two names.

I on the other hand, am not speaking of only two people. I draw my statistics from a wider range.

if kunle and remi's Yoruba speaking grandparents had lived with them in owerri, or if they mixed with a wider Yoruba community in Owerri on a regular basis, they would speak Yoruba.

Even my grandpa once visited a Nigerian town where the people didnt know he understood what they were saying. How did he pick up that language? From interacting with people from there in another area.

It is now you are talking.Ask yourself these days how many grandparents live with their grandkids?Remember you said the kids will always learn their native tongue even if they are brought up in english.You forgot different scenarios like no grandparent,no community that spoke your mother tongue in that area.

And owerri is not a place where you find yorubas everywhere unlike the way you see igbos everywhere anywhere in the country.You have to go to a particular place in owerri to locate a yoruba person.It is only hausa people that are everywhere in owerri.

eldee:
It will affect your Yoruba definitely
But you don't exactly get labelled an illeterate during the process of picking up Yoruba as a second language, do you??

I am on another level of argument here with tpia.Let me ask you this.If a yoruba person only hears english at home but grew up in calabar how will he learn yoruba if he remains in calabar.Nobody is talking about literacy here.

tpiah:
I'm telling you basic facts here. Speaking English at home wont prevent a child from learning other languages including your local ones.


I spoke of people I know personally and you're still arguing?

People speak english or another language to their kids at home. The kids interact with other people outside the home and pick up the local language where they are. If there's a grandparent living with them, they learn their grandparents language if its different from what they speak.

The people living in kaduna who are experts in three languages- what's your explanation for that?

abeg waka pass if you have nothing solid to say.

Typical market woman remark.Kids interact with people outside their home in kaduna or non yoruba land and they will learn yoruba by speaking to hausa lads or non yoruba kids?If it is true why did kunle and remi i grew up with in owerri not know how to spaek yoruba?simple ,their parents who were only speaking english to them at home.Look at your thinking.I repeat those people were spoken to in yoruba in their homes.

tpiah:
I dont get your point but most Yorubas I know who were born and raised in Kaduna speak at least three languages- English, Yoruba and Hausa. And they speak excellently well.

I knew people like that back in Nigeria.

Those yorubas were spoken to in yoruba in their various homes by their parents and not english.Remember you said that if you speak english to them at home it will not affect them understanding yoruba when it is spoken to them which is a lie.

tpiah:
good point @ bolded.

I dont know why people keep discouraging others from speaking English to their kids as if children cant learn more than one language.

In Nigeria, speaking English at home wont prevent you from learning your local language. I have relatives who are polyglots- they speak at least two or three languages- their own and other Nigerian ones. Some of them havent been to their hometown more than five times but there's little you say to them in their own language that they dont hear.

even the Indians peope are talking about- the ones doing outsourcing jobs for US companies are supposedly being trained to speak American lingo.

Try living is kaduna and speak english to your kids at home and see whether they will know what the hell you are saying in yoruba.Those ones that have not been to their homeland but understand what you say their parents speak their local lingo at home.