₦airaland Forum

abbey621:
You're still not getting it, when it comes to the numbers of minorities they allow and support in their countries, Europeans are clearly ahead of majority of African nations. You claim diversity is detrimental yet they thrive off of it, there are more African descendants in the French national team than French descendants, even Germany with its racist past has more Asians than majority of African countries so your theory does not tally.

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Have you ever lived in Europe before painting this kind of rosy picture?

abbey621:
Your statement is full of contradictions, Europeans are more diversed than majority of African countries. Which other sets of people take in Asians, Africans, Mexicans etc at such a large scale? I repeat diversity is not your problem, your problem is mismanagement and leaders who love gluttony!

that is not true ,european countries practise regional government which nigeria failed to go back to.the migrants are minorities.

southniyikaye:
On this note, I give it up for the ibos..
Go to ladipo, then you will see things like this. Those girls even come to help their brothers in the shop during weekends..
Na that broda o, broda o, the way they call it, na hin dey sweet me pass

yorubaland saving ipob lives since 500bc.

abbey621:
The sooner you realize you own nothing on this planet the better, just because you were born in a region does not mean anything there belongs to you, you live in a country where land ownership belongs to the government, so what exactly do you own? Diversity cannot take away what does not belong to you in the first place....WAKE UP!

nonsense go and claim england,we yorubas must start practising self preservation like european countries-

ntyce:
That's not true..

Look at what advanced countries like Canada and USA did through diversity lottery..

Diversity brings about development, it opens your heart and mind to varieties.

And as they say, variety is the spice of life

canada is a stolen land like america ,the real owners are left with nothing.

[quote author=helinuesIsaMumu post=102989360][/quote]Haba it should be one bag of gbana to carry go malaysia.

The Federal Government will be raking in about N1.1bn yearly from the operations of the newly launched Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge railways.

This is based on the analysis of data obtained from the Nigeria Railway Cooperation by our correspondent on Tuesday.

At the moment, the Nigerian Railway Corporation operates two trains on the route, and each of them makes one return trip. This makes it four trips daily.

One of the trains is a diesel multiple units. It has two motor cars and eight coaches.

The breakdown of the coaches is one first-class coach, two business class coaches and five standard class coaches.

The train takes off from Ibadan to Lagos and returns to Ibadan the same day.

The second train is made up of three business classes and five standard classes. It takes off from Lagos to Ibadan and returns to Lagos the same day.

For the first train with eight coaches and a return trip to Ibadan, it is expected to make a total of N3,524,000 daily.

Findings show that a passenger on the first-class section which has just one coach and 24 pays N6,000 per seat. Multiplied by the number of seats and the return trip, the first class coach is expected to fetch corporation a total of N288,000 daily.

The business class has two compartments of 56 seats and 68 seats. The price for each seat is N5,000 and N3,500 respectively.

If each of the compartments is filled up per trip, it will fetch total of N560,000 and N467,000 for a return trip respectively. This sums to a total of N1,036,000 daily.

The standard class has five coaches, each carrying 88 passengers.

At the rates of N2,500, it will be generating the sum of N2.2m daily.

Following the same structure, the second train with its three business classes and five standard classes is expected to generate N3,712,000 daily on its return trips.

The NRC customer care correspondent confirmed that it works six days weekly, adding the corporation was considering Sunday services beginning from this week.

Given the current six-day reality, it is expected that the Federal Government will be generating about N1,103,200,000 yearly from the operations of the two trains available on the newly inaugurated routes.

The Lagos-Ibadan train only has one stop at Abeokuta. Our correspondent gathered that other stops such as Agege, Ijoko, Kajola, Omi-Adio would be opening shortly.


https://punchng.com/lagos-ibadan-railway-route-to-generate-n1-1bn-annually/?fbclid=IwAR3UGs1ZsS6W6eLKXXutEbYTtojXWhjhv595ExD4WT2il4QbY4ehFPJ7rjw

Mynd44

Orji uzor kalu deliberately stole from abia state purse as governor and his deputy then was senator abaribe... uzor kalu slork airlines then was funded by abia money back then... but these ibos till today never see anything wrong in that.. rather it's the bullion van that entered baba tinubu house in 2019 election they can see... awon obuko,isu leyin ese.

EmekaA125:
Yes like this below

Like your erosion ravaged potopoto republic

Gbagura:
You and your tribe won't be seeking asylum in afonja land if it's already well with your soul in your potopoto region that's barely some kilometers larger than Oyo state. Only unwell people support carnage in their region. Something ain't right with flat head tribe. We need to convene national mental assessment for you guys.

Unfortunately our Yoruba brothers and sisters are marrying people with bipolar disorder and ilara.

RuudVanNisteroy:
Name the businesses he owned before he became Governor in 1999. He awarded Alpha Beta monopoly to collect taxes in 2003 at 10% commission when he was governor the same year the company was registered with Corporate Affairs Commission, if he was in Canada or England he would have been sent to jail.

If he was in Europe the same thing would have happened.Politicians worldwide are the same.Haven’t you seen an anti-migrant politicians renting his houses to refugees in Sweden?

That is the way politicians roll all over the World.It is all about power,money and control.

Mftivi:
with this your mentality e sure me die that you are living a rather wretched and deprived life! Like guy, you are too dense! As in, you are too dull! Please do humanity a favor by reading books abeg. The data you use to type utter rubbish will be more useful if you consume them reading educative materials to enlighten and liberate your mind cos omo you too daft gosh!

Wretched man i have never lived a poverty stricken life like you thank God.Suplim leader zombie.

Mangekyo:
See as they're spending our money on Lagos
Anyway, kudos to sanwo olu. I've observed him and he doesn't seem to be a looter like our governors on here

Lagos make trillions per year only shippers council make 22 trillion in One year.Ask Atiku how he became rich in Lagos.

Ppogbae:
That's is true. The recent commissionings of Lagos-Ibadan rail, Lagosian projects, the recent tech startup rankings and various other projects have really riled them up

Do you know their suplim leader is warming up to destroy lagos again in july during oduduwa rallly .Lagosians must be alert to deal with these onilaras.

NwaIgboBoy:
South south oyel moni

It is Yorubas money not oyel moni olodo.
Yorubaland generates $475million per day,you wan try am.

Ppogbae:
Why are Igbos so obsessed with Tinubu?

They are jealous of Yoruba leadership,they wish they have someone like him in South East.Their suplim leader only bring them distractions and destruction.

AmazingELixir:



Can the common man on the street afford the fares.

It starts somewhere,competition will bring down the price.

Fahdiga1:
Nice one from Sanwo-olu. One can only imagine how much he would have done without Tinubu always breathing down on his neck because of Lagos allocation

Your governors that are not stealing in the east,what have they done to benefit the masses.?If Tinubu is stealing and lagos is able to do this then i support this kind of stealing with laudable projects.Lagos is the only state that doesn’t owe salaries despite withholding FG allocation.

Godbless Alhaji Tinubu for giving lagos wonderful successors.

Longlive BAT
Longlive Lagos,Yorubaland

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Jill Demilew and Mary Dehinbo presented with Gold and Silver awards by the country’s most senior midwife

King’s midwives Jill Demilew and Mary Dehinbo have been presented with Chief Midwifery Officer awards to recognise their outstanding contributions to midwifery practice in England.

Consultant Midwife Jill, who received the Gold award, was recognised for addressing health inequalities and improving access to healthcare for the most vulnerable women in South London.
Through her work, Jill has applied different models of care within the community to get the very best outcomes for the most disadvantaged. She has influenced and informed health policy, consultations and briefings for MPs, which has directly resulted in improving care for women.

Jill has been fundamental in implementing continuity of carer models so that women have the same group of midwives supporting them throughout their pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal care. The model established at King’s has been used as an exemplar across the South West Local Maternity System. Jill also holds a strong belief in the importance of building trusting relationships with women and supporting them to manage loss, grief and trauma.

Tracey MacCormack, Head of Midwifery at King’s College Hospital, said, “Jill’s extraordinary contribution has given a voice to the most marginalised groups of women in society. She has influenced so many midwives and student midwives who have worked alongside her. Jill’s contribution has changed national guidance for the benefit of women and their families. She is an unassuming leader, extremely gracious, an expert in her subject, an excellent role model and an absolute asset to maternity services for vulnerable women in south London.”

Mary Dehinbo, newly appointed Consultant Midwife, was presented with the Silver award for making positive changes to the labour ward whilst on secondment. She was instrumental in setting up a telephone assessment line, which enhanced the triage process for women in labour calling the department and freed up time for midwives to provide care on the ward. Mary has also implemented wireless fetal monitoring, which has improved the standard of care for women.

Tracey MacCormack added, “During Mary’s secondment to a specialist role covering a Consultant Midwife’s post, she made many positive changes on the labour ward, whilst providing support not only for the women in her care but also others on the ward.”

Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE, Chief Midwifery Officer for England, who presented the awards, said, “The Chief Midwifery Officer Awards celebrate the ways that staff have gone above and beyond to improve care for women and their babies, as well as their contribution to the profession of midwifery as a whole. I was extremely proud to hear about the amazing work that has taken place and honoured to have the opportunity to present these awards.”

https://www.kch.nhs.uk/news/public/news/view/32824

BoboNkiti19:
Huh? South South of today was part of the Eastern region, and when did the Western region ever produce palm oil? thought cocoa was always the major cash crop product of the West.

Edo,Delta and Bayelsa were part of Western/Midwestern regions,Yorubas had palm oil too.It is not unique for Igbos.
Show us what grows only in Igboland.

BoboNkiti19:
Yes the facts are documented, palm oil at (1913- 1914) was the highest resource in terms of export revenue in Nigeria.

Useless Aboki were fooling themselves that their groundnut was used to fund the oil exploration in the East... which yeye groundnut again?

Was the East the only region producing palm oil? Southwest and South south produced too.

What happens next forms the crux of the Phoolan Devi legend. On Aug. 13, 1980, Lal Ram and Shri Ram Singh murder Bikram, kidnap Phoolan Devi, and lock her away in a Thakur village called Behmai where they—and, presumably, many others—repeatedly gang rape and publicly humiliate her over the course of three weeks. She is, at this point, 17 years old. One night she manages to escape, joins a new gang, and convinces its leader to help her take revenge. On Feb. 14, 1981, she leads the gang into Behmai (or so the commonly accepted story goes; Phoolan herself contests this version of events) and demands that the villagers turn over the brothers. They claim never to have seen them. She has 30 men marched to an embankment and, when they still don’t cooperate, orders her men to shoot. Twenty-two of them die. She becomes the most wanted person in India, with a $10,000 price on her head. To this day, Fazeli says, villagers in Behmai are skeptical of anyone entering town with a camera, certain that he or she will be sympathetic to Phoolan Devi whom they still view (understandably) as a cold-blooded murderer.

Two years later, she surrenders to the police under carefully drawn conditions. She demands that her gang members get no more than eight-year sentences, that her family members who have been jailed because of her be released, and that her own cases be tried only in special courts in Madhya Pradesh to protect her from retribution from angry Thakurs, the caste that, in effect, ran Uttar Pradesh. She spends the next 11 years in jail.

By the time she dies in a pool of her own blood on a leafy street in New Delhi 18 years later, the legend of Phoolan Devi, the avenging goddess, has already taken form.

In conversation with Fazeli, noted Delhi-based journalist Purnima Tripathi says, “We put our goddesses in frames and install them somewhere. If those goddesses were to step out of those frames and speak out, we would stop worshipping them.” Phoolan Devi, after a short life of speaking out loudly, has been securely placed in her frame. “She was a fighter,” Tripathi says, “not a larger-than-life Bandit Queen, not an outstanding politician, but a woman who refused to go down because of adversity in her life.”

The window of opportunity to remember that woman, rather than the legend she became, gets narrower every day.

Bollywood became particularly enamored of the subject of highway bandits

It’s not hard to understand how Phoolan Devi became an icon; her story—as a woman, and especially as a poor, low-caste woman—is sensational and singular, but also tragically paradigmatic.

Phoolan Devi’s first rebellion comes at the age of ten when she confronts an uncle and cousin who, she learns, had stolen her father’s land by falsifying village land records. She publicly taunts and humiliates them; in return, she’s beaten unconscious with a brick. A year later, at the insistence of the same uncle, Phoolan Devi is married off to a 45-year-old widower in a distant village in exchange for a cow and bicycle. A few days later, she comes home. A year after that, she’s returned to her husband, stays a few months, then comes home again. For his 1981 essay “Phoolan Devi, Queen of Dacoits,” Khushwant Singh, another legend of Indian letters, spoke at some length with Phoolan Devi’s family and reports that, when Phoolan Devi comes home the second time “her mother describes her as being ‘filled up’—an Indian expression for a girl whose bosom and behind indicate she has had sex.” He continues, “A girl leaving her husband brought disgrace on the family. ‘I told her to drop dead,’ said her mother. ‘I told her to jump in a well or drown herself in the Jamuna.’” At the age of 12, Phoolan Devi was considered ruined.

She spends her early adolescence in the village grazing the family’s buffalo and takes up with the son of the village headman. She develops a reputation for promiscuity and is sent away to her sister’s home in a nearby village, where she and her distant (and married) cousin, Kailash, start an affair, a dalliance reportedly built on mutual flirtation and seduction. She runs off with him to be married but he returns to his first wife not long afterward. Phoolan Devi goes home. On Jan. 6, 1979, she was arrested for stealing from the home of the same uncle who had repeatedly wronged her, the only arrest in her brief, eventful life (much of Singh’s account of her early life is based on the deposition she dictates to the police at that time). In retribution, the cousin who had beaten her up years before burns her father’s crops. Released from prison two weeks later, she attacks the cousin with a rock.

Fed up, the uncle orchestrates a kidnapping by one of the many bands of armed robbers—known by outsiders as dacoits, or bandits, and amongst themselves as baagees, or rebels—that patrolled the Chambal Valley. In her interview with Fazeli, Phoolan Devi’s younger sister, Choti Devi (Little Goddess), recalls “my sister jumped from the roof to run away, but the bandits caught Shiv, my brother. Then she returned and said, ‘leave my brother, I will come with you.’”

https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2017/indias-bandit-queen/

On a chill February day in 1983, a 20-year-old young woman known as Phoolan Devi—literally, Flower Goddess—walked out of the forested ravines of the Chambal River valley and handed over her gun. She bowed to images of Gandhi and the goddess Durga and surrendered herself to the Chief Minister and Chief of Police of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The cheering crowd of 8,000 people gathered that day—journalists; politicians; some 300 cops; and others from across the dry, impoverished center of the world’s largest democracy—knew Phoolan Devi as a hero, a bandit, a murderess, and a goddess long before they saw her in the flesh. Phoolan Devi, India’s celebrated Bandit Queen, was not a woman, but a legend.

Born to a low-caste household in 1963 in a village on the banks of the sacred Yamuna River in the vast north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Phoolan Devi was, by the time of her surrender, wanted on 22 counts of murder and another 26 counts of kidnapping and looting. At 31, after a decade in prison, she became the subject of a major Bollywood film, Bandit Queen, which she criticized and which, as Arundhati Roy pointed out in a two-part evisceration called The Great Indian Rape Trick, calcified a problematic version of her life (and its meaning) into accepted fact. Four years after that, she was elected to her first term in India’s parliament, the first low-caste woman to hold that distinction. In 2001, at the age of 37, while serving her second term, she was shot dead in front of her home in Delhi for still-unknown reasons.

Hers is not a life overburdened with hard facts. In making the fictionalized epic Bandit Queen, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur said, “I chose Truth, because Truth is pure.” In reality, the only nonfiction account of Phoolan Devi’s life is the book by Mala Sen on which the film is ostensibly based and which itself contains several divergent, and often contradictory, versions of Phoolan’s life. The Kapur film, rather than capturing the complex realities of Sen’s book, portrays Phoolan Devi as a noble victim. In an interview for Mary Anne Weaver’s excellent 1996 essay for The Atlantic, Phoolan Devi said the film showed her “as a sniveling woman, always in tears, who never took a conscious decision in her life.” She was a symbol of womanhood scorned and avenged, not a human being.

When the Iranian documentary filmmaker Hossein Fazeli first heard about Phoolan Devi five years ago, he was shocked to learn that no documentary had ever been made about her life. “I have a lot of respect for Kapur and I think he’s a very interesting filmmaker, but I think Bandit Queen is a bad film; it gets a lot wrong,” Fazeli told me recently. “At the time it was made, there were a lot of rumors and legends and not a lot of facts.” Not much has changed—if anything, Phoolan Devi’s legend has grown since her death—which is why Fazeli has already spent countless hours interviewing family members and prominent intellectuals across North India, a process he hopes to complete once he’s secured sufficient funding, in part through

The Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtLX2Cz_1pA

Mynd44

Conrod:
Mine is to take pictures and count their deads.

Vulture spotted.Go and count your dead brother’s dead body in dubai cultist war.

OfoIgbo:
Azikiwe was just a ceremonial president. The person with executive powers was Tafawa Balewa.

Igbos have only held the executive powers in Nigeria for roughly six months.

Goodluck Jonathan is Ogbia and not Igbo.

Nigeria has been independent for about 61 years, and Igbos have only held the executive powers for just 6 months

The Igbos held power for six month by killing leaders of other regions.What a callous act by a group for power and control.

Tranquillity360:
The question should be" will yorubas vote South South man"

Yorubas voted for a South South candidate,Goodluck Jonathan in 2011.

My question is will the Igbos vote for a Yoruba presidential candidate,if he will grant them the Biafran referendum in 2023?

wizelink:
IN AS MUCH AS I AM NOT A FAN OF ANY POLITICIAN, I FEEL THAT THE FULANI OLIGARCH WANTS TO MAKE SURE BUHARI DOESN'T HAND OVER TO TINUBU COME 2023

IF NOT, WHY ARE THEY BRINGING UP ALL THESE CASES AGAINST HIM AT THIS TIME IF NOT FOR 2023 ELECTION. THIS IS SAME PERSON THAT WAS DEEMED WITHOUT ANY OFFENCE DURING THE HEAT OF 2014 CAMPAIGN AND EVEN DURING BUHARI'S FIRST TENURE.

THE FULANIS HAVE STARTED BY CLAIMING THERE WAS NO AGREEMENT ON ROTATION OF POWER PRIOR TO APC CAMPAIGN IN 2014.

SECONDLY, CASES HAVE BEEN INITIATED AGAINST TINUBU JUST MAKE HIM UNSALEABLE TO THE MASSES.

ACCORDING TO FALANA, APC HAVE PERFECTED PLAN TO RULE NIGERIA FOREVER BY THE KIND OF ANTI PEOPLE POLICIES THEY HAVE INITIATED.

Jonathan took Tinubu to the code of coduct for trial,they found nothing.EFCC can investigate from morning to night, they will not find anything.

Francisalao9:
If this probe is real then the presidential ambition is die down gradually..

Didnt Obasanjo a convicted criminal become Nigeria’s president after Presidential pardon?Forget story,Tinubu has a right to contest like any other Nigerian,let the electorates decide who leads them.