yampoo: Victor Moses is from edo-state.benin to be precise.u ppl should desist frm peddling rumours.His mum nd Dad are stil much alive.

You are delusional. Did you read the interview he granted ?

"....Moses' legend may only grow from here. As an 11-year-old, his parents were killed in religious riots in the Kaduna province of Nigeria. He was playing street football at the time and was promptly hidden and sent to foster care in south London. Moses could have been lost to his homeland. He played for England at age-group level up to under-21 but accepted a call-up to Nigeria in March 2011. If he continues in this vein, he will have many years to play for Nigeria. ...."
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/blog/_/name/footballafrica/id/484

More for you to read.

Strict lesson to a lot of Nigerians who feel/felt aggrieved by tragic events that happened in the past (You know who).
You can bury the hatchet and move ahead and contribute our own quota in making this country work.

As a Chelsea fan I'd rather he remained at Stamford Bridge rather than play 4 this God forsaken country.

[size=14pt]Victor Moses was playing street football with a 'sticky tape' ball when he heard both his parents had been murdered..[/size]

Victor Moses sat in the prefab office at the Crystal Palace training ground. He made eye contact only fleetingly. He spoke in a voice barely above a whisper and never for more than a few words.

His accent was south London, where he has lived for the seven years since his escape.

But when he hissed his 's' at the end of 'yes', that was his native Nigeria and the first echo of his tragedy.

At least now there is a little distance between him and what happened when he was an 11-year-old growing up in the city of Kaduna in the north of the country.




He has made a good life for himself in England. He only turned 18 in December but he has just bought his own flat. In a few weeks, he will take his driving test.

His boss at Palace, Neil Warnock, says he is the most gifted forward he has managed. Chelsea and Arsenal are said to covet him. He plays for England Under-19s.

And yet Victor remains an enigma.

He responds well to the Palace coaches now but when he first arrived, they felt they could not reach him.

They forgave him his silence though, because they knew there was a reason for it.

There were rumours about the horrors he had seen. It was said that he had not spoken for two years after he arrived in England because he was so traumatised.

But none of them knew the details of his story until he sat down in that office last week and whispered some of his memories.

The recollection of it all was still desperately painful and sometimes Victor's whispers became inaudible and he looked away.

He did not say his father had been a brave man but did not need to.

Austin Moses was a Christian minister in Kaduna at a time when religious violence between the Muslim majority and Christian minority was rife.

[b]Thousands of Christians had been killed there in 2000 when they objected to the imposition of Islamic Sharia Law.

The news wires mention countless examples of Christian pastors being butchered in their churches by Muslim rioters.

Still, Austin Moses remained a pastor and with the help of his wife, Josephine, continued with his missionary work.

He did not have time for football but Victor played every day, in the streets or on a dusty concrete pitch surrounded by houses.

His heroes were David Beckham and Michael Owen.

But in 2002, there were more religious riots. The family knew that because Victor's father had his own church, he would be a target.

Victor, the couple's only child, was playing football in the streets with a ball made up of sticky tape bound tightly together when his uncle came to find him.

He told him rioters had set upon his parents in their home and murdered them. He said Victor's life was in danger, too. The little boy, an orphan at 11, was hidden at a friend's house.

"I just tried to be careful afterwards," he said. "It was a week after they were killed I came to England.
[/b]
They got me out as quickly as they could for my safety."

He left so fast and in such panic, shock and bewilderment that he did not even have the chance to bring any pictures of his parents.

I asked him if he still had vivid memories of them and for the only time, his eyes blazed. "Yes," he said, "of course."

Victor did not know anyone in England. He had never even been outside Kaduna before. He was placed with foster parents in Croydon and classified as an asylum seeker.

He was juggling a ball in a park by himself one day when he plucked up the courage to ask if he could join in with a team training there, Cosmos.

He began playing in the Tandridge Sunday League with them and was spotted by Palace scouts.

They helped him gain admission to the highly-respected Whitgift School so he could take advantage of its superb sports facilities and the coaching of former Palace star, Steve Kember.

Warnock gave him his debut for Palace last season when he was 16 and he became a fans' favourite and an England Under-19s regular.

Warnock came and sat with us for a while as we spoke and listened intently to what Victor was saying.

The Palace boss experienced a different kind of parental bereavement at the same age as Victor when his mother died from multiple sclerosis.

And for a couple of minutes the manager at the end of his career and the boy at the start of his talked about how they imagined their parents looking down on them as they continued with their lives.

Warnock said Moses was good enough to play for one of the top four Premier League sides. He said if Palace did not progress, Moses would leave. He talked about how the boy came alive when he ran on to a football pitch, about how all the pain he seems to carry with him fell away when he had a ball at his feet.

And he said he wished some of today's footballers, the ones who seem to take their gilded lives for granted, could see what Victor had overcome to get to where he is.

Victor nodded. The dream of being a professional footballer meant something different to him, something terribly poignant.

"When I look back," he said, "it makes me want to do everything I can for myself and make sure I am in the right place.

"I want to live well and do the right things. I never want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time like they were."

Igbos don suffer, to Yorubas and Hausas any one from the south and not Yoruba is Igbo !

Tot Lagos was named after Laos by the portugees

@OP are you sure on this one ?

Eko Ile:
What's tribalism got to do with leadership failure in Nigeria? Is leadership failure a new phrase when it comes to your country? Look in the mirror, I'm sure you'll see a tribalist.

Tribalist

Why, because the FG wants to build a Mausoleum for Nigerias First Indegeneous Governor General and President and your getting red faced.
All Just because its not Awo.

All you Awoists make me laugh,

This is 2013, change your ways pls.

Eko Ile:

You should know now that I stopped taking your old azzz seriously. Failed descendant of a failed leader.

Awoooists ! Una don come again!

To introduce tribalism and confusion to a problem.
Must you always behave like your role model ?

I really think the thread should be re-opened.

But please can you add Awo to that list.
Just to make it a little more interesting.

After watching the disagreements between Seun and his fellow Owambe brodas
It has helped be understand Yorubas even more.

Just like numerous misunderstandings between Akitola and Awo.
There is always gonna be a struggle between the true progressives in Yorubaland and the Awoists !

Observing the reactions of people like Tinubu, Fashola, OBJ and Soyinka on this Achebe issue.
I can now confirm that all Yorubas are not the same.

ekt_bear: Let us not turn this into yet another yoruba/igbo thread.

Ain't got nothing to do with that.

Democracy and the following of procedures. End of story.

Including gaging a fellow commentator for insinuating that Awo be posthumously added to the list for a free and fair vote.
My posts were instantly hidden.

With some tribal Awoists cheering and commending him all the way.
This is a trend that has been developing for a while and its all because Seun has not kept an eye on his Issue.

Dudu_Negro: where am i when katakata burst on nl, i always get the news too late. i need to bring grapevine back into my service y'all.

ahhem, let me clear my throat.........ahem!

Seun,
First and foremost i believe you owe an apology to your mods. you admitted that you are hardly here to see to the day-to-day operation of the section. so who do you think does the work in your absence? the mods of course! i know, having managed something similar, that the power you delegate to them is in trust, to check behind them everyday would be akin to macro managing and the fact you dont do that says something very positive for both you and them - you know how to identify talent in people and empower their creativity and they on their part are self-supervised, needing little attention from you to produce results.

there are times when you will need to step in and put out a fire as you are doing now. that should be handled calmly, otherwise you turn a burning thrash can into an huge inferno that soon consume the whole block. communication is key! communication is key!! communication is key!!! i repeated this three times to highlight what lack of communication can cause.......jarus resigned due to lack of communication! you want to be a respected boss, not a feared boss. im by no means saying your mods fear you but i do want you to know that lack of communication results in cold and distant interaction thus a fear of the unknown. i also want to add that, failure is a cause for celebration. when a process fails or decision making is flawed or a batch of products are defective, it opens avenue to discuss improvement and a way to prevent repeat flaws in decision making or action.

jarus my brother, you are very much appreciated here. if you quit we will miss you greatly. you and oamj are doing fantastic work and even though you will be replaced, it will not be the same. there is a tempo....a dynamic at play and there is no need to topple it. seun should have communicated....im on your side. i understand why you reacted way you did but c'mon dude this is fixable and you guys should find an improved way of consulting with one another before going public so that you have a consistent message. leadership is fixing problems and sustaining progress. im still suffering and smiling from missing mukinatou so much, dont add to that. stay!

on the subject of the nomination itself. my igbo brothers spend everyday on nl venting about the war and the 20pounds and starvation and insulting our leaders. they killed akintola and till today they continue to insult him in grave. they insult awo, obj, abiola, tinubu, fashola, aregbe, ......i mean, is there any yoruba leaders that is spared their insults? if they have the liberty to vent and insult and complain and heap hatred on multiple yoruba leaders, why cant yorubas enjoy the same liberty of showing their dissafection with just ONE igbo leader for a change?

as i have often said here, until yanmiri bow down or bow out, there is no end to your humiliation in this place. you do not have an exclusive birthright to aggression. if picking on just one of your leaders causes you so much distress can you imagine your pain if we come at you match for match on the number of our leaders you insult and assault? vote or no vote, achebe has earned himself a position of disrespect and dishonor and we will bring it on and heap dishonor on him.

Errant Nonsense !
Is there any Nigerian politician who has not been insulted on NL ?
But using your position as a moderator to gag some peoples posts while letting others have a lea way is abuse of office.

Do you know that during the nomination process, that by muting the idea of listing
Awo in the hall of shame to go through the same voting process like everyone else your 1diot of a friend/moderator hid my post ?

Only in Nigeria is one a villian for revisiting history whereby there was genocide on a massive scale.
Will you say the same about Jews, Armenians, Serbs or even Black Americans for revisiting these horrific historic events.

But a lot of you are of the consensus that the issue be swept under the rug for the sake of peace.
Especially where no one has even dare express regret not to talk of appeasement.

Jarus:
For not being consulted before going public, I hereby tender my resignation as Nairaland Politics Section moderator.

Please delete my name from your list of moderators immediately.

Regards,

Good Riddance !

@Seun sitting around and saying that you are not involved in certain aspects of your project (Nairaland) is as far as I am concerned a bit careless.
At a time when your site is getting so much recognition.

The actions of @Jarus as a moderator is inexcusable and potentially damaging to your course.
I think he should be relieved of his position as a moderator immediately.
He has shown time and time again that he cannot rise above his bias and sentiments, whether political or ideological.

This is a guy who continues to propagate Sanusi year in year out as a hero or success, something which Nigerians and NLanders are not interested in.
I think you need to get yourself new moderators, ones who will rise above their own bias and opinions.

We all rejoiced and I for one i'm very proud of the fact that your website is beginning to get the international recognition it deserves.
But more than ever, you need to pay more attention because things could change very quickly.
The like of Yahoo, MySpace have learnt the bitter way.

You got millions of dollar opportunity on your hands, please don't let the usual Nigerian factor ruin it for you.

Aigbofa:

Was it ok last year when he was on Hall of Fame list? Nairalanders are not robots, if they think he should be on Hall of Shame this year, I think that should be it. Anyway it's your prerogative, but bear in mind that the book he wrote is also divisive.

There is no problem in voting people into the hall of fame/shame list.
But its the Nomination or shortlisting process that is very questionable and initially made me loose complete respect for this forum.

I would've not had a problem if Achebe was listed for the said "allegations" against Awo,
But I think I would have had Awo to the list as well for the same unproven "allegations".

We are talking of one of the highest selling books this year.
A feat so shameful in Nigerian terms.

Please Musiwa or what do you call yourself,
What does Chike mean in Benin ?
And what does Edozien mean in Yoruba ?

Wole should not be accepting an Awo award, rather it should be the other way round

This achebe man must be powerful.
Still in the news big time
Just one book !

Another attempt to shift Nigeria away from being a true de-tribalised Nation.
Nice to see the immense contribution amongst many from the yorubas.

If only they did not invent tribalism.
This country would've been way ahead.

[size=15pt]Allahu akbar !!! [/size]

Can you please go to https://www.nairaland.com/1132455/enugu-vs-ibadan-old-western
If you wanna talk about Ibadan.

Stop propagating myths