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I don't know about his children, but isn't he just a shy man?

1. Now he can never take off his clothes.
2. He looked much better before (no homo).
3. His lips look like sweaty scrotum skin.

“God is a democrat, he does not support rigging but if you rig and succeed, that means God approve of it.” - Jonah Jang

Fresh Air!

Whoever runs that blog needs to visit a psychiatrist.

LMAOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Wut a loser!

Remind me never to leave kids alone with you...

asorocker: Please Mogidi do you have more pictures of Ojuelegba under bridge, Ayilara street and also places like Ladilak in Bariga, i would appreciate the world to see where Lagosians live , let them see the real Picture of Lagos without the Oil companies, Banks , Telecommunication companies and the Maritime businesses

Don't kill yourself with all that hate.

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There is a difference between "big and beautiful" and just being overweight.

Juliet Ibrahim is what most men mean when they think about sexy thick girls.

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She has shape! This other one has arms bigger than her legs.

1st class Pet/Chem graduate working as a airport cleaner.

Knowing how many out of work graduates there are...I believe it. At least her friend hasn't turned to kidnapping.

Are you guys Nigerian?

Don't you know that the only thing that matters is that Jonathan is a SS man, and that he promised to hand over power to the Igbos in 2019?

Nigerians will start valuing DEVELOPMENT over ETHNICITY on the same day the Second Niger Bridge is completed. Which is the same as saying it will happen when pigs learn to fly, or hell freezes over.

One_Naira: Tell me about it. It's called "pull down mentality", the "crap in a box" behavior. Rossik or was it someone else described the mentality very much. To be honest, I've never in my life seen an ethnic group that hate, jealous and try to pull down others achievement when it's not in their favor like . It was the Uyo thread that magnified it for me. It shouldn't come to anyone surprise. It is just how it is and I think people are getting used to it on NL. It is a very pathetic and sad behavior that is for sure.

Every thread on NL gets hijacked by tribal Igbos beating their chest about Biafra!

Some Igbo wrote a long tribal letter to an INDECENCY STAR because she had the audacity to be from the same tribe.
When the London killers were found out to be Nigerian, Igbos starting saying they were 'Biafran'.
And that is just today!

Face it, you all are the most tribal group in Naija. If you were white, you'd probably all be racists. In fact, most of you seem to want to be Jewish because you hate your African ancestry so much.

Can someone explain this to me?

TheBookWorm: I didn't even know this discussion was continuing.

Let us end this thread by stating that many people view Professor Chinua Achebe as the "father of MODERN African Literature," while some people do not. That is perfectly fine to have a disagreement on issues such as this.

But let me say, if a majority of people give you a title, even one you do not wish to have, eventually, it will stick. That is how we as humans work. If enough people call you something, how can you deny the title?

So..if lots of people call Africans animals, that means we should accept the title?

DerideGull: The above junks are fool’s delights. It is laughable some folks are trying very hard to turn any primordial sketch into literature. What a wasteful endeavor.

You mad?

Like I said...it's the Igbos fault that they just learned how to read and write.

Mr knowitall.:
I was asked to do a Nigerian movie...now im even afraid to do it...cuz someone might write an open letter for my tattoos....

You should never be afraid of what other people think.

Do something you believe in, and have confidence in it.

Redoil: Why are they doing it for only themsevles why not for at least 1/1000 of people in lagos. Well i can see that he just the govenor of alahusa and not of lagos state.

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Her husband must be very happy

Airforce1: I'm ashamed of May D
I can't really tell between him and Bance who z finer

And why is he dark skinned? Can't he bleach?

Are you ok

Riba_man: That's your view, and you entitled to yours. I disagree with you, I doubt if you have read his last book. In that book, Achebe tries to tell you what went wrong at the birth of this country. He is keen to tell you the mistakes we made, but you are only interested in a tribal reading/viewing/interpretation of his works..
I make bold to say that " There was a Country" will become required reading in Nigeria, when eventually we rescue this country from the dogs that currently hold her hostage.
He was not a tribalist, he was a courageous man. A man who was capable to telling the truth.

I did read the book, and he spent the entire book painting Igbos as flawless saints, who were so perfect, and rich, and pretty, that the rest of Nigeria became jealous and massacred them.

Do you honestly think something like that is based in reality?

Achebe was one of the leaders of the Biafra government, so it's not surprising that he is upset that his government collapsed. It's also no surprise that his "memoir" about the collapse of Biafra is full of so much hate towards the tribes of his old war enemies.

Look at the Igbos who have read the book, and how they act. Clearly, this book is not having a positive effect on society.

Btw, the most compelling rebuttal to his book was written by a Kenyan. You can find it on the Amazon.com review page. I would post it here, but it is too long.

Already I have shown you that the Father of The English Dictionary was heavily influenced by Ethiopian literature.

I have shown you the Torah/First Five Books of the Bible where written in Egypt.

I can do this all day...

The oldest university in the world is located in Morocco.

Look up "Utendi wa Tambuka" - It is a Swahili epic written in the 1700's. It is famous among Islamic historians.

Etc, etc

Yet you tell me this Achebe is the first African author known overseas.

DerideGull: Some Africans in general and Nigerians in particular are so lost in the dirtiness of ethnic bias that logical reasoning is alien to them.

Which literature book written by Egyptian attended the pedigree of being text in school curriculum in Egypt talk less of North Africa?

Did the so-called Scrolls in Timbuktu ever become school text in Mali? It is even insulting to dabble into what the above poster called Ethiopian texts when dealing about literature as in discussion.

Let's start with Ethiopian literature. The woman pictured below is an Assistant Professor of Comparitive Literature and African American Studies at PRINCETON UNIVERSITY....

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Belcher specializes in medieval, early modern and modern African literature. One of her key interests is in how African thought circulated in Europe before the 19th century, which she explores in her latest book by focusing on the influence of Ethiopian thought on the work of the English author Samuel Johnson. In 2011, Belcher spent a year in Ethiopia on a Fulbright fellowship researching ancient manuscripts illuminating the lives of women now regarded as saints in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which dates back to the fourth century. She also took the opportunity to photograph a range of scenes and subjects during her visit. Stories from Ethiopia and the African continent have resonated with Belcher since childhood, when she lived in Ethiopia and Ghana. Her first book, "Honey from the Lion: An African Journey," is an autobiographical account of her time in Ghana.

This May your book "Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author" was published by Oxford University Press. What was the connection between Ethiopia (then known as Abyssinia) and this famous 18th-century author — the father of the English dictionary and subject of the legendary biography by James Boswell?

One of the things Samuel Johnson did early in his literary life was to translate a 500-page Portuguese tome about the Ethiopians. I think he did the translation because he had read a book about the primitive Christians and at that time Europeans thought that the primitive — the "purest" — Christians were the Ethiopians, because they had been Christians longer than anyone else. This book was about something Johnson thought was horrible, about the Jesuits trying to convert the Ethiopians from their ancient form of Christianity to Roman Catholicism in the 17th century. But Johnson did this translation during a period of mental instability and it took peculiar hold of his imagination. In fact, I go so far as to say that he was possessed by it. For the rest of his life, Johnson wrote fictions about the Ethiopians that were partly animated by what the Ethiopians said about themselves. One of these was his most famous book, "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia," which was an imagined fiction about an Ethiopian philosopher prince who searches in vain for ways to live happily.

We always look at how Europe affected Africa; we very rarely look at how Africa affected Europe. So my book is trying to do the reverse of what is so commonly done by looking at the influence of Ethiopian thought on a canonical English author.

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In your research on Johnson you made discoveries that led to your current work on some remarkable Ethiopian women, who were described as "diabolical" by the Portuguese Jesuits who were trying to convert Ethiopians until they were ousted in 1632. What was significant about these women?

As I was reading this tome Johnson translated, it was very interesting because women kept popping up in the text — royal Ethiopian women who refused to be Europeanized, who refused to convert to Roman Catholicism. So I began to read other texts around it and I found that the Jesuits who came to Ethiopia blamed the failure of Roman Catholicism in Ethiopia on these royal women. At first I thought this was just misogyny on the part of the Jesuits — blaming their own failure on women. But then I began to wonder if maybe they were right.
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The more I read from the European sources and the Ethiopian sources the more I saw that, in fact, almost all the men of the court converted for reasons of state, to get arms from Europe, but almost all the women refused. And did so in very active ways, speaking out before the court, preaching against Roman Catholicism in the countryside, fomenting armed rebellions. The Ethiopian women saved the church, saved the nation. These women's resistance was very powerful. It is a story of how early Africans successfully resisted early forms of European colonialism, which people often assume always succeeded.

People also often assume that Africa has no texts before the 1950s. The fascinating thing about this period of history in Ethiopia is that we can compare two points of view, the Europeans' and the Ethiopians', because both wrote books about these experiences. The Ethiopians were writing historical chronicles and also hagiographies [biographies of saints], because these women who resisted became saints through their role. Ethiopia has about 200 indigenous saints, and most of them have hagiographies, and between eight and 14 of those, we're still figuring that out, are women. This is a large body of original early African literature that has gone almost entirely unstudied.
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One of these women who has captured your imagination, Walatta Petros, is recognized as a saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Who was she?

I am working with Michael Kleiner, a leading scholar of the ancient Ethiopian language Gə'əz, in translating a manuscript about Walatta Petros [1594-1643], who was one of these royal women who refused to convert. This book may be the first biography of an African woman written by Africans. It will be at least 175 pages in print form in the end, all about her and her life, and will be the first translation into English. I am also collaborating with Selamawit Mecca, an expert on Ethiopian female saints, who is an assistant professor of Ethiopian literature at Addis Ababa University.

We learn that Walatta Petros had an adoring father, that all of her three children died in infancy, that she left her husband because she wanted to become a nun, that her husband burned down a town to retrieve her, that she went back, left again, and started a series of religious communities of people who were refusing to convert. There are various points in the text when she is hauled in front of the court and asked why is she being so recalcitrant, why is she refusing to convert. She preaches about retaining the faith of their fathers and not turning to the "filthy faith of the foreigners."

We also learn lots about their daily lives, such as Walatta Petros getting angry with the other nuns for doing manicures instead of working.

People tend to think of Africa as the place where women have the least power. And yet it is my firm belief that women everywhere in every time have struggled for their rights and succeeded on some fronts and not on others. So I'm always looking for the story that goes against this narrative of Africa being particularly oppressive toward women. So the story of these very powerful Ethiopian women really captured my imagination.
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Belcher's work focuses on the story of Walatta Petros, a royal woman known for her fiery resistance to Roman Catholicism in the 17th century, who is recognized as a saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. In comparing manuscripts of Walatta Petros' story (such as those shown above), Belcher, working with Michael Kleiner, a scholar of the ancient Ethiopian language Gəʿəz, is hoping to publish the first biography of the saint's life in English.

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During a Fulbright grant last year you did extensive research in Ethiopia on Walatta Petros and other female saints, including visiting monasteries to discover manuscripts for further study. What do you hope to gain from this work?

What happened in Ethiopia when I was there was that Selamawit and I managed to find other copies of Walatta Petros' story. By going to monasteries and doing a lot to get permission to photograph these handwritten parchment manuscripts and finding where they were, we now have a number of versions. This is really important because the first print edition in Gə'əz — and its Italian translation — is based on only one copy of the text. This means that parts of the text were confusing, probably due to scribal errors, and now, by comparing these different texts, we will be able to clarify a lot more. By doing that we may also be able to find out more information about who the author is.

With Selamawit I visited Walatta Petros' monastery, for which you have to travel for about an hour by motorboat across Lake Tana; it's very remote — no running water, no electricity. At this monastery there are quite a few manuscripts devoted to Walatta Petros.

You lived in Ethiopia as a young child. How does that experience resonate with you now?

My first memories are of Ethiopia. It was a completely magical place for a child that age. There was a castle in my back yard. There was a descendant of King David on the throne. My parents would point out that the way the oxen were threshing the grain was the way they did it in the Bible. It was like living in a book. And it fed my lifelong fascination with books.

See all the pics included with the interview here: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S34/36/63Q09/index.xml?section=featured

DerideGull: I thought you were ill-educated but when you dabbled into who wrote the bible, I realized you were pitifully ill-educated. I shall not get into the silly postulation about who wrote the bible with an ignoramus who seemed comfortable trading on insinuations.

Moses wrote the first five books of the bible in Sinai, which is a part of Egypt.

He was born in Africa and died in Africa.

This is common knowledge. I pity your teachers. How much did you dash the professor to pass your JAMB?

DerideGull: Some Africans in general and Nigerians in particular are so lost in the dirtiness of ethnic bias that logical reasoning is alien to them.

Which literature book written by Egyptian attended the pedigree of being text in school curriculum in Egypt talk less of North Africa?

Did the so-called Scrolls in Timbuktu ever become school text in Mali? It is even insulting to dabble into what the above poster called Ethiopian texts when dealing about literature as in discussion.

You are incredibly uneducated.

Have you heard of the bible? The first five books were written in Africa. The Book of Jerimiah as well.

That is just scratching the surface of the African contribution to literature.

If you are ignorant, that's ok. Just try not to embarass yourself.

20 pieces of silver.

CAMEROONPRIDE: No offence, but I really don't know you from Adam to eve, I mean I don't recall coming across your moniker..did I hurt it feelings in a thread?

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Don't cry...dry your eyes. It's not everyday that a man gets embarrassed by another man the way I EMBARRASSED you in that other thread. It's understandable that you'd run away and pretend it didn't happen. That you'd lie awake at night, praying the pain would just go away.

As the person who embarrassed you however, it is my right to LAUGH UNTIL I CRY.
TO. LAUGH. RIGHT. IN. YOUR. FACE!!!

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Many of them are right here on Nairaland.

konn: For God's sake this man is a national hero why is it only south east governors that are rallying round him what happened to other south south, south west, and north? lets all learn to celebrate a genius RIP sir

People respected and admired him until he wrote that tribal book There Was a Country.

If Nigerians know anything, we know how to spot a common tribalist. That book ruined his reputation here in Naija.

ACM10: Igbos hate no one. Besides you are following Eko ile, a reknown Yoruba tribalist, yet you have the gut to call others tribalist.

I am following that man because I have tried sending him a private message about something, and I am waiting for him to respond.

What does what someone else writes have to do with me anyway?

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By Gboyega Akinsanmi

The Lagos State Government has finally started a preliminary work on the Fourth Mainland Bridge.

The 26-kilometre infrastructure would be designed to link Ikorodu to the state’s economic hub in Eti-Osa Local Government Area.
The state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, disclosed this in an interview with THISDAY, saying there was no problem on the development of the project contrary to speculations that it had been abandoned.

Hamzat, who once served as the state Commissioner for Science and Technology, explained why full work had not commenced on the proposed bridge linking it to a good number of buildings, which he said, would be affected if the old alignment was the state’s preferred option for the right of way.

He explained that the old alignment “is becoming a bit cumbersome because of the number of buildings on the right of way. It might be extremely destructive if we want to follow the old alignment. We might probably need to destroy a lot of good buildings. This option is not fanciful to us. So, we have to look at another right of way.”

He, therefore, acknowledged that consultants “are working on the new right of way. We will look at the cost-benefit analysis of the alignment that will be cost-effective. We are considering if it is better to pay compensation than going through another alignment. The experts are already working on it, and the report will come out soon.”

Hamzat categorically clarified that there was no problem, though explained that people “may not see the physical work at all for now. A bridge is not what we can jump in there and start to build. Then, we will be able to commence full work. But internally, a lot have been going on. The preliminary work has actually started.”

The commissioner, however, declined to give timeline for the completion of the project, citing different issues, which he said, needed to be resolved before the state government could commence work on the bridge in full scale.

He explained the need to meet all the stakeholders and people whose buildings would be affected in order to discuss the issues of compensation and resolve other issues that might lead to litigation while developing the infrastructure.

At this instance, the commissioner said it might be difficult “to determine. That is the truth of the matter. If there are 50 buildings on the right of way, we have to determine their cost. We also need to talk to people that will be affected.

“The fact that the state wants to pay compensation does not mean somebody will not go to court. So, we need to engage internally without people knowing what is happening. We need to know the owners of the buildings. We need to talk to them and arrive at a conclusion. So, it depends on how responsive the people are,” he said.

Meanwhile, the State Governor Babatunde Fashola, at the weekend, threw more light on the reasons behind seeming delays in some road projects across the state, saying they are much more complex, sophisticated and with people issues involved.
Fielding questions from senior journalists at an interactive session in Lagos, Fashola said some of the roads being built in the mainland areas of the state needed piling and other underground work before surfacing while others were facing problems of lack of urban planning, community resistance and court actions.

The governor explained that what was going on with the Lagos-Badagry Expressway expansion project was that the road was awarded to two contractors, Messrs Julius Berger, which is doing the 10 lane road and Messrs China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) which is handling the light rail section of the road, adding that because of the piling work which CCECC has to complete before the road is filled, Julius Berger had to step aside until the piling is finished.

On the other inner city roads in various parts of the state, Fashola said some of the delays came from the owners of land on which the roads pass, some of who went to court to stop government from acquiring their land while others protested and fought contractors on site.

“The work we are doing now is much more people issue because we are now engaged in holding a lot of meetings with communities and people and explaining to them to allow us build the roads. The alternative is that all our projects can hang up in courts and I will be the last person to defy court injunction,” the governor said.

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ogugua88: [size=13pt]Are you any different? Just as the OP has "spoken" for all Igbos, you're now judging all of them.[/size]

Why do so many threads on this site get hijacked with posts about Biafra, Chinua Achebe, or tribal nonsense about 2015?

OP took time out of his life to write a long open letter to this woman. The letter basically says he hates that she was born Igbo. What kind of person does that? What does her indecency video have to do with her tribe? Must you insult her parents and ancestors along with her?

Who even thinks about tribe when they hear about this woman? Only tribalists like OP.
If she was from another tribe, OP probably would've written an open letter insulting her tribe because of her personal decisions.

Maybe...and this is even worse...OP would've ignored her altogether. Doesn't matter that she is a fellow Nigerian that might need 'saving' or 'rehabilitation'. The only thing that matters is if she is Ndigbo.

What a loser.