wow.

na wa

nice one. medical doctors start on level 12. that shd be the target.

Ernestbukky:
Team manual. Major of car racing and successful robbery are being done with manual cars

lmao@successful robberies

no difference between Pharisees and these people at all.

abes:


hatred and sadistic nature has really blinded you lots


[img]http://4.bp..com/-p0nsm723z2U/VVJuA3nQ8cI/AAAAAAACEEU/SFtsgtqgIdQ/s1600/IMG_20150512_175136.jpg[/img]

This picture is misleading. It was taken in May 2015. after Buhari has already won the elections. it was the only one he attended.

Samusu:
What will their present add?

presence. not present.

Congratulations to Dr. Ayo Oluranti, the HOD of the Music Department.

Oga take us thru how u swallowed the 36M

Yes. In 1998 when Pope John Paul II rode in it along Festival Road Abuja, he waved to me and I waved back.
add am to the list.

“…I believe in safety first, if you see anybody holding arms and wants to attack, please don’t waste time”. These were the orders from Konongo Divisional police commander, Superintendent Bossman Ohene-Boadi. 

He was speaking to the about 200 combined military and police force deployed to evacuate the Fulani nomads from the Asante Akyem North and Sekyere Afram Plains Districts in the Ashanti Region, when he made the comments. 

He ordered the team of armed military and police force to shoot on sight in the wake of the slightest threat. 

Supt. Boadi painted a horrific picture of the nomads when he addressed the battle-ready men in uniform as they set off to evacuate nomadic Fulani herdsmen from Agogo land. 

“…They are not people we have to toil with, they are dangerous, if you joke with them, they will take your life”, he said.

The Fulani herdsmen have over the years been accused of destroying farmlands of Agogo residents and at times killing the farmers. 

Three soldiers and a police officer were left in critical condition after being ambushed and shot by persons suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Monday at Agogo on their normal operation. 

The security personnel deployed at Asante Akyem North and Sekyere Afram Plains Districts have therefore been told to defend themselves. 

“…Are Fulanis better than us? Can they shoot better than us? Nobody should die in the bush, no risk taking”, he added.

http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Agogo-commander-orders-shoot-to-kill-on-Fulani-herdsmen-617020

SheIsElle:

Lol. Well a lot has changed since your time. In my own time, no form of punishment whatsoever, both from the senior students or teacher. No difficult manual labour. In fact these days they train you to be lazy.

O yes. we get stories of the life of luxury there now. a few of my classmates have their kids there. We also get to meet the millennials at alumni meetings.
MCA was a labour camp in our time. we practically built the school ourselves. The feeding was TERRIBLE. The Marist brothers could afford to do that then because they had the monopoly of quality education in Eastern Nigeria. its no longer the case now. plenty good schools have sprung up. some of my contemporaries still bear grudges against the school.
But I still believe they meant well.

SheIsElle:
Marist comprehensive Academy, the best place to be.

LWKMD. this life sef. well I understand u guys are living in luxury now. It wasn't like that in the 80s and 90s. I don't even know where to start from. on one occasion we were even ordered to go dig a grave for an abandoned corpse at the burial ground near the school area. during night prep. we also had to evacuate a filled soakaway pit with our buckets. the Marist brothers were rather crude in their method. well-intentioned though. by the way, I'm of the 1994 set.

Didn't see ur message.

Shalomdee:


Thanks, I will probably need to send you a message to be clarified

wicked

Hmmmmmmm
Ive handled many cases like this in the past decade or so.
Traditionally, in most customs, the child of an unmarried woman belongs to her father.
Nonetheless, in any matter relating to the guardianship and custody o children the interest and welfare of the child shall be the first and paramount consideration.
Go to Court. (Customary Court, or Family Division of the High Court) Prove that u can take better care of the child and that the respondent is irresponsible and wayward. The younger the child, the easier for you. Msg me if you have further problems. Good luck

sad

Are you writing as a layman or as a lawyer. Sounds more like the former.

HumanistMike:
The comedian knows he stands no chance in court.

In a counter suit, he'll have to prove in court yung6 has no hits which means, he'll have to define what a "hit" is. At that point, his defence will be "oh, I was just joking".

So he knows if he sues yung6's DJ and dude has difficulties proving his wife used to be a cheerful giver, the DJ will be quick to say "oh, I was just joking o. It's all entertainment" and that will be the end.

I'm glad the DJ gave akpororo a taste of the ills of his art. You can't cause someone emotional pain just to further your career. Don't try to fall people so you can use them as a ladder!

For those that feel the DJ went to far, I'll say this:
IN AN ALTERCATION, THE MOMENT YOU PUT HANDS ON A PERSON, ALL GLOVES ARE OFF. AT THAT POINT, YOU LOSE THE RIGHT TO NEGOTIATE A RETALIATION. IT WONT BE A CASE OF "I DIDNT HIT YOU HARD" OR "I HIT YOU IN SUCH N SUCH PLACE SO YOU GOTTA HIT ME IN THE SAME SPOT" NO! JUST BRACE YOURSELF FOR WHATEVER RETALIATION YOU GET.

Be smart yall!

wow

I understand Femi Falana SAN has taken up his matter. The boy is very lucky. I'm sure the learned silk will adopt the diplomatic approach. Wise counsel would prevail. I hope the boy has leant his lesson too.

Ibironke? You be senior bros o!!!!!! Respect.
We were the last set of Jegede.

hardbody:


Lol. I find that omnibus clause very interesting. They can use the fit and proper clause to disqualify anyone at anytime even when you have already qualified or even a silk.

I recall when I was enrolling at the Supreme Court and there were some delays. In anger i tapped at a certain gentleman who was helping to manage the situation, unknown to me, he was a judge. The man challenged me to tap him again and see whether my certificate will not be withdrawn. Them no born me well na, i chilled and humbled myself. The man spotted me from afar again and came to tell me that I am not fit and proper to be called to Nigerian Bar. I stood up and mildly begged the man oooo.

Those were the days of Baba Ibironke

Just read something about him on an Abuja Lawyer's WhatsApp forum:

"I'm a bit familiar with the facts of this case. He started his Law office attachment with a firm I frequent often. That young man, with all due respect, never comported himself as one aspiring to be a lawyer. He was eventually sent packing from that Law firm because of his overbearing attitude. He had petitioned the Law firm to the NBA alleging bias against him. He did this without first laying his complaints before the Principal."
"That guy never acted normal. He seemed afflicted with something. How else do you explain an intern talking to his Principal, a Prof and SAN while pocketing his hands! He was corrected yet he never took correction.
He insisted on sitting in a particular section of the office even when a room was assigned to him. He complained of everything!!"

To me, this is a classical case of
"Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat." (those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make Mad)
I pray they take him back, though. His parents would be very distressed by now. He's clearly an exuberant and misguided youth.

Big fat lie.
ive been on Nairaland.com since 2006 and on Facebook since 2007. never have I witnessed what is happening now. Its simply shocking. we all used to have fun, gist like brothers and sisters and make intelligent contributions to issues, devoid of ethnic jingoism.
The blame therefore lies with this adminstration, its heavy and divisive propaganda during the elections that brought it in, and the 97%, 5% pronouncement and practice of its principal. I blame this administration. The good thing is that they can right the wrongs if they want to, rather than criticise social media, on who's back they rode into office.

i need one for my choir. can I see some of ur samples?

So sad that one cant even recognise Super Eagle's players by name or by face. I REALLY miss the 80s and the 90s. How art the mighty fallen?

i dunno. but i know that when we were admitted to read law in ui, my friend was also doing ND Masscom in Ibadan Poly. by the time we were in 500 level he was already wrapping up his HND in the same course.
today he has a flourishing legal practice in Abuja.

The Magnificat

My soul now glorifies The Lord who is my Saviour, Rejoice for who am I, That God has shown me favour.
The world shall call me blessed And ponder on my story, In me is manifest God's greatness And his glory.
For those who are is his friends And keep his laws most holy, His mercy is never ends, And he exalts the lowly.
But by his power the great The proud, the self-conceited, The kings who sit in state, Are humbled and defeated
He feed the starving poor, He guides his holy nation, Fulfilling what he swore, Long since in revelation.
The glorify with me The Lord who is my Saviour One Holy Trinity Forever and forever.

The Magnificat

My soul now glorifies The Lord who is my Saviour, Rejoice for who am I, That God ha shown me favour.
The world shall call me blessed And ponder on my story, In me is manifest God's greatness And his glory.
For those who are is his friends And keep his laws most holy, His mercy is never ends, And he exalts the lowly.
But by his power the great The proud, the self-conceited, The kings who sit in state, Are humbled and defeated
He feed the starving poor, He guides his holy nation, Fulfilling what he swore, Long since in revelation.
The glorify with me The Lord who is my Saviour One Holy Trinity Forever and forever.

The Magnificat
My soul now glorify the Lord who is my saviour rejoice for who am i that God has shown his favour.
the world's shall call me blessed and ponder on my story in me is manifest God's greatness and his glory
He feeds the starving poor he guards his holy nation fulfilling what he swore long since in revelation

The Magnificat
My soul now glorify the Lord who is my saviour rejoice for who am i that God has shown his favour.
the world's shall call me blessed and ponder on my story in me is manifest God's greatness and his glory
He feeds the starving poor he guards his holy nation fulfilling what he swore long since in revelation

The hatred between the Yoruba and Ndigbo has gone on for far too long. Let there be love shared among us!

The Yorubas and the Igbos, two of the most resourceful, engaging and outgoing ethnic groups in Nigeria, are becoming implacable enemies. Increasingly, they seem to hate one another with pure hatred. I never appreciated the extent of their animosity until the social media came of age in Nigeria. Now, hardly a day passes that you will not find Yorubas and Igbos exchanging hateful words on internet blogs.

The Nigerian civil war ended in 1970. Nevertheless, it continues to rage today on social media mostly by people who were not even alive during the civil war. In blog after blog, the Yorubas and the Igbos go out of their way to abuse one another for the most inconsequential of reasons. This hatred is becoming so deep-seated, it needs to be addressed before it gets completely out of hand. It is time to call a truce. A conscious effort needs to be made by opinion-leaders on both sides of the ethnic divide to put a stop to this nonsense.

Ethnic stereotyping

Both the Yorubas and the Igbo stereotype one another. To the Igbo, the Yorubas are the “Yoruba Yoruba” “Yoruba” who eat too much oil. They are masters of duplicity and deception; saying one thing while meaning another. To the Yorubas, the Igbo are clannish and money-minded. They are Shylock traders who specialize in selling counterfeit goods.

But the truth is that stereotypes are essentially generalisations and exaggerations. In a lot of cases, they are unreliable and untrue. Stereotypes must be recognised at their most effective as a joke. They are the stock-in-trade of seasoned comedians; the garnish for side-splitting anecdotes at weddings and social gatherings. Stereotypes should not be taken seriously. We should laugh at them without being offended by them.

The more Nigeria develops as a melting pot of nations, the more we should be able to laugh at ourselves. The greater inclination to do this denotes increasing strength of character and self-confidence. However, with the advancement of social media, the banter has gone way beyond the jocular and innocuous to outright malice and unadulterated hatred. Increasingly, what you hear are abusive and pejorative labels of “Yoruba,” “Yorubastards” and “Yorobbers;” as well as “Eboes,” “Zooafrans” and “Biafrauds.”

As the insults fly with abandon, you begin to wonder where all this comes from. What is the basis of all this hate? In the sixties, the Igbo were slaughtered in pogroms in the North. However, the principal exchange of hateful words today is not between Northerners and Easterners, but between Easterners and Westerners. Why are these two ethnic groups so much at loggerheads? How did we get to this pass?

Malicious stereotyping often involves denigrating the strengths of others. The Igbo are very enterprising; a very valuable resource in a developing country like Nigeria. But then this is castigated as mercenary. The Yorubas take great pride in education; another valuable asset in today’s modern world. But then they are derided as using this to get one over on others.

The saving grace is that the two groups live side-by-side in peace and quiet in different parts of the country. Moreover, the animosity between them, especially among the younger generation, has not prevented their boys and girls and men and women from falling in love. Yoruba men marry Igbo women; and Igbo men marry Yoruba women. Meanwhile, “a lutta continua.”

Awolowo factor

The Igbo tar the Yorubas with the brush of Awolowo, who they label as “the father of ethnicity in Nigeria.” In that narrative, it is conveniently overlooked that the broadmindedness of the Yorubas enabled Azikiwe, an Igbo man, to win a regional election in the Yoruba heartland in 1954. Instead, what is harped on is the fact that Awolowo mobilized Yoruba politicians to nullify that victory by decamping from Azikiwe’s more nationalist camp to Awolowo’s more ethnically-focused camp.

One of the newspaper headlines that sticks in my memory from 50 years ago is the one that said: “If East Goes, West will Go- Awo.” After a visit to Ojukwu in Enugu at the height of the acrimony over the mass killing of the Igbo in the North in the mid-1960s, Awolowo declared that if the East was allowed to secede as a result of acts of omission or commission, he would also lead the West into secession.

This flashed a green light for Igbo secession. But when the East seceded, Awolowo failed to mobilise the West to follow suit. Not only did the West not join the East in secession, it joined the North in fighting against the East. Awolowo then became the Commissioner of Finance and Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council of the Nigerian government that prosecuted the war against Biafran secession.

The Igbo have rightly deemed this a great betrayal. But their case against Awolowo did not end there. As finance minister, Awolowo was the brainchild of the strategy to blockade Biafra; leading to mass Igbo starvation and deaths. With the end of the war, it was also alleged that Awolowo orchestrated the policy whereby the totality of individual holdings of Biafran currency was converted to Nigerian legal tender at a flat maximum amount of only 20 pounds.

This effectively pauperized the Igbo. Since it also coincided with the period when Nigerian corporations were being privatized, it had the effect of locking out the Igbo from strategic sectors of the Nigerian economy; gobbled up in the main by the Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas.

Brothers in adversity

The Igbo case against Awolowo has become the Igbo case against the Yorubas. In the process, it is easily overlooked that prominent Yorubas, like Tai Solarin and Wole Soyinka, defended the Igbo right to self-determination during the Biafran War. The properties the Igbo left behind in Yorubaland during the Civil War were not expropriated by the Yorubas, as they were in some other places. When Odumegwu Ojukwu came back from exile in Ivory Coast, all his father’s properties in Lagos remained intact.

Under President Obasanjo, a Yoruba man, the Igbos were given the control of Nigeria’s economic and monetary policy. The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Governor of the Central Bank, Charles Soludo; and Director-General of the Stock Exchange, Ndidi Okereke-Onyuike, were all Igbos. So were the Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili; and the Director-General of NAFDAC, Dora Akinyuli.

Indeed, Obasanjo favoured the Igbo more than his native Yorubas. He appointed an Igbo, Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, as the Minister of Defense and another, Air Marshal Paul Dike, as Nigeria’s first Igbo Chief of Air Staff. While the Igbo visit the transgressions of Awolowo on the Yorubas, they do not visit the favouritism of Obasanjo on the Yorubas.

The sins of Awolowo were brought again to the fore in 2012 by Chinua Achebe in his book: “There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra.” The blogs came alive as blame was traded on both sides of the East-West divide. Awolowo was now cast by the Igbos as the father of the Yorubas; and they were determined to visit his sins on his Yoruba sons to the third and fourth generations.

Mistakes galore

Blunders continue to be made on both sides, fanning the flames of hatred. Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State blundered by deporting some destitute Igbos back to the East in the dead of night in 2013. This created uproar in the sizeable Igbo community in Lagos. Even though Fashola expressly apologized to Ndigbo for the faux pas, a ridiculous discussion nevertheless ensued about the rightful ownership of Lagos.

Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, put his foot in it when he declared that Lagos, as a former national capital, was “no man's land and so belongs to all of us.” This incensed ethnic jingoists in Yorubaland who, forgetting the traditional hospitality of the Yorubas, asked the Igbo to leave Lagos and go back East.

But nothing quite compares to the broadside that came from the Oba of Lagos. During the 2015 election, Oba Rilwan Akiolu summoned Lagos Igbo leaders to his palace; only to threaten them: “If anyone of you, I swear in the name of God, goes against my wish that Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos state, the person is going to die inside this water. What you people cannot do in Onitsha, Aba or anywhere you cannot do it here. If you do what I want, Lagos will continue to be prosperous for you, if you go against my wish, you will perish in the water.”

It mattered little to His Royal Highness that Ambode’s close rival was not an Igbo but Jimi Agbaje; another Yoruba man.

Timeout

The Yorubas and Ndigbo do themselves great disservice by seeing themselves as arch-enemies. Within the framework of Nigerian politics, this has limited the freedom of action of both ethnic groups. If the one is prominent in this political party, the other is more likely to align itself with another party. This means the one can always be manipulated against the other. Instead, the political space should be opened up by the possibility that the Yoruba and the Igbo can form an alliance. That eventuality is not implausible especially because they actually have common interests.

Both groups prefer a Nigeria that practices fiscal federalism. Both want a country with a weaker centre. Both want a Nigeria that rewards merit, with a state-structure based on resource-control. Both groups want a Nigeria committed to self-determination. These are grounds for cooperation as opposed to discord. If the North is not to continue to take the South for granted, it must not be allowed to continue to operate in the confidence that the East and the West will always be divided.

In politics, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent allies. Fifty years down the road, the politics of the Nigerian Civil War should not be allowed to continue to cast a shadow over Yoruba-Ndigbo relations. In the Second World War, Germany was the arch-enemy of France, but now both countries are the staunchest allies. Japan invaded the United States; but now both are on the same side. These turnarounds can and should be duplicated in Southern Nigeria.

As a first step, there is need for a grand gesture. A well-publicised meeting between the Afenifere and the Ohaneze, where declaratory statements should be made about burying the hatchet. Thereafter, standing committees should be established to deal with flashpoints; such as the dismantling of Oshodi market in Lagos. The hatred between the Yoruba and Ndigbo has gone on for far too long. Let there be love shared among us!

I drive on this road everyday to work. Freak accident. God abeg o.