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whyman: No fracas in Ejigbo. Those who expect trouble in our peaceful state would be greatly disappointed. Iroyin Eleje

Can you please affirm your presence in the town, and what area you're in?
It is worrying to see people attempt to discredit anything opposing them.

As it is now. Calm has been restored. In fact, if you passed through Ejigbo now, you would wonder if anything happened at all. The reported death toll still stands at one, with the condition of the other seriously wounded person unknown.

Now, the fracas began when the supporters of Iyiola Omisore, who were dancing around town peacefully, were given a surprise attack by supporters of the APC. The scuffle quickly yielded its first casualty. A pregnant woman among the PDP supporters was attacked, and she died immediately. This fired up the PDP supporters, who resorted to area to area attacks in response. Both sides armed with 'juju' rings and charm wips called 'onde', many victims are struck and left to die. The security personels simply watch on.

Sorry for omitting the site of incident(s). It's Ejigbo. Area ;town central

Oh. Change of subject: one dead many dying..
And for those who are expecting a powerful source of information like a newspaper, you'll have to wait till tomorrow for that. But those who want live updates from the radius of occurrences, I'm your guy

A clash between supporters of the incumbent governor and APC candidate, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, and those loyal to the candidate of the PDP, Iyiola Omisore, in Ejigbo LGA, has resulted in the death of one person- a pregnant woman. Another victim has been reported to have been wounded, and possibly fatally, with a slash to the neck with a (cutlass?).

More casualties are possible with the unrest still ongoing. More updates to follow...

"Oyinlola said sensible things", said a neatly dressed man. "yea. He's a very sensible man" agreed his friend. A couple meters from the scene of the discussion, another was being held in a provision store. A thousand more spread over the state of Osun, all discussing the decamping of ex-governor, prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola from the PDP to pitch his tent with the APC. Wait a sec, aren't they eternal enemies? What would the ' prince of peace' seek with the party that dethroned him with a hot battle in court? Doesn't he remember the people who have lost to his battle with the APC properties, parts, and/or their lives, families who have lost their breadwinners to his war with his enemies the APC? Properties vandalised, people who will never be friends again, all for nothing?
Follow the money, and the power - The one rule of the Nigerian political game. Follow this everywhere and anywhere. And they do. The recently popular trend of decamping (and redecamping in some cases) proves that. But people don't know this. We are all just playing cards, pieces in the hands of the players-the politicians. Every wonder why it isn't too easy to become a player, why we're all just screaming behind the rich lazy billionaires that rule us?
They are in the game, and only in it for the money.
So what do you think? Will/can we really get to play in the game of our own futures? Will we EVER get to see a player who will play only for our cause?

It was late last night o. I was just watching tv when this bat entered. I thought it was just a large fly or moth until it landed on my tv. At the exact moment it landed, the tv showed a bold message with the words 'REMEMBER , EBOLA VIRUS IS SPREAD BY BATS'..

Zionope: U mentioned d guy (Aregbesola) is not doing anything in Osun for the past 3 years right? Are u telling me that apart from the road dat leads to d speaker's house that was awarded after lossing Ekiti election (according to u) Aregbesola didn't do any other road project in Ejigbo?

Nice question(s) I do know our dear governor awarded several road projects, and some have been completed. The identity of the companies awarded and their relationship to himself and godfathers is another issue entirely.
From your questions, it would seem I only talked about roads. I didn't. But anyway, every administration that comes to power AWARDS AND COMPLETES ROAD PROJECTS and installs water pumps. That's almost all they ever do in terms of public development! What is worth discussing is the ones they didn't. If you are a disciple of the state media, you will be indoctrinated into believing all the failures of the past government and the successes and benevolence of the present.
Awarding all roads in osun state to an allied company is good. At least the money paid for it comes back to you one way or the other. But when you complete so little (and renovate some and talk all about how the past government who made it were wicked and heartless)..
I mean he completed so little even the two roads leading to the house of the speaker of the state house of assembly is one of the poorest you'll see. Yeah he completed the byway to abere, now name 6 major (MAJOR) roads completed... don't mention the parking lot touted to be an overpass o

Konmight: @OP
What part of Osun are you from?

Ejigbo. I'm from Ejigbo

But really, what has Aregbesola done in all his 3+ years in office other than remodeling the state's appearance, make the state richer in debts, and cover the state in posters? Yea sure he created more employment opportunities by creating corps like the O'yes, O'reap etc. But, what's really in it for people? I mean, if we get more people working, and workers not getting payed, you just get more empty pockets, less money in circulation , and more people screaming down the government's throat! And with this sudden increase in taxation (Or taxation plans) and taxing avenues..
And then, what will Omisore do but reverse Aregbesola's reforms, and resume the norms of PDP rule, viz:less development and corruption?

Personally, I'd vote for... I'd rather not vote actually.

Hey guys, how about this. State the party and candidate you would choose to vote for. Citizens of other states could join in too. Let's see if a candidate gets a majority of endorsement. It's Aregbesola vs Omisore
Let the race begin!

And it seems like, since there will be very tight security during the election processing on the 9th of August, people who were probably planning to engage in violent acts on election day have rather decided on unleashing mayhem BEFORE the appointed day. Reports are already rife detailing accounts of poster tearing rampages and violent clashes and charm testing and weapons importing.... So if you are in the state of osun right now, BE YE WARNED! The state of the 'omoluabi' isn't exactly filled with such, and strange death are occurring quite very intermittently ;a woman who just delivery a baby was found dead last week, that could happen anyhow else, but committing suicide ON A PAWPAW TREE is some strange way to die, and for a woman who is still celebrating the birth of her baby...
3 ghastly auto accidents in the space of two to three hours, and all in same vicinity,well... So if you gat relatives down/up here, be as kind as to warn them. May the good Lord be with us all.

Brb

A FEAST ON CROWS, VULTURES, AND GOATS
While it is a simple fact that elections in Nigeria are known for one thing apart from election fraud-violence, some seem bothered by the fact that the federal government has provided adequate (compared to previous elections) security, culminating in the dispatching of a large (by some accounts, very large) security personel force. There have been statements made disputing the move, claiming that they have been dispatched to scare people off. A similar phenomenon was enacted in neighbouring Ekiti state, where a shock result placed the opposing PDP back in power. So it can be assumed, or deducted, that the prospect of a similar occurrence is scaring some quarters into making statements laden with an apparent fear of tight security preventing any electioneering misconducts.
And in the same vein, those who are citizens of sucha town as Ejigbo and it's several suburbs can testify to seeing a whole lot of new,strange faces these days. People you've never met before, who don't seem to know anything about town, arriving and claiming to be descendants of ejigbo compounds. People who have not been in Nigeria since they were conceived arrive in town, and pointing to paternal or maternal chronology as membership passports. And it ain't as if they came home for their families, they've arrived to help in the electioneering process - rented voters
There's been too many bags of rice flying around town, distributed by the bowls to the electorate, to.. Ehm.. Give them 'strength' and 'purpose' on the day of the Lord. Nice. In fact, your house will probably be visited next, by party agents who will bless you and your family with money and a message.
What some of our state's plentiful hicks do not know, or remember, is this:if they only do it to win your votes to get into power, they will NOT continue once they get there. This guys give us a bowl of rice each for the meals we should have enjoyed for the past 3 and half years, and a couple thousand naira for the comfort and security we should have got for all these years. If they had the power to give us money and food all this time, why now? Why ONLY now? They knew people needed food and comfortable living all along, but they didn't give them to us, and instead of shiny faces and full bellies, they have provided us with a meal and some money to spend on Eid-il-whatever. When next do we get the next bowl of food and wad of cash ? Wait till the next election campaign, in like.. 4 years. We sure won't starve before then shall we?
For every Congo of rice we get, they've kept 10 bags for themselves. Yet, as the elephants stamp on us and crush the grasses, the grasses kill and maim each other over which elephant wins. As the oppressors keep oppressing, the oppressed machete themselves over who gets to oppress next. As the elephants fought, the grasses suffered and fought themselves to continue the suffering...
Next : A valley of the shadow of death

Cont'd .. but all in all though, Aregbesola is working, and walking. Implementation of corps, like O'yes for the young and unemployed, O'elders for the old, aged (and connected), O'reap for agricultural development, O'farmer for more.... Farmers, O'clean to clean up what the O'yes forgot to clean, O'meal to feed schoolkids, O'health so more people will need and get treatment :-D, O'ambulance for... Ehm ambulances and ambulance drivers, O'tech, O'church, O'mosque, O'task..
For those who do not know, senator Iyiola Omisore has his own youth empowerment scheme, and it's been functional for some time . God knows till when
So is the petty politics going on in the state. Everyone trying hard to help people help them to the seat of power. And people think it is for their own good! Not everything is going to endear you to people though, eating popcorn in public for example.
So you have a case where someone uses propaganda in attempts to get a hold of power, while the other uses propaganda to try to keep hold of it. And what serves to show people you're helping them, and working hard, than to declare it everywhere? A thousand billboards, and ten thousand posters per LGA. In significance terms, you've got ten thousand pictures of the same face per LGA. And what serves more to discredit than rumours? Rumours of sacrifices and rituals,of demonic symbolism in flag and coat of arms, of tyranny and oppression, and of impending doom should the incumbent governor win again. So many rumours you don't know what to believe, and too many denials of a single crime you start to believe they did it. I ask if you stole my yams, and then you deny stealing my harvest!
After 3 and half years, we are still being told of how the government has rectified grievous errors of the past government. In fact, more emphasis is being laid on the mistakes of the past government than the successes of the present - which are few enough - free uniforms, O'yes, and the "opon imo" tablet. Those who expected a permanent placement of the customized pads were disappointed when they realised they'll be returning them after completing SS3,and I do not know a student who received the first free set of uniforms who has not purchased a new one, since the uniform clothing tears easily and fades out after about 9 washes. Some have had to buy new uniforms twice, thrice, or even more. The cost of making a new high school uniform is the price needed for making two of the previous ones. But then that makes you remember a certain tenure that never bothered to give anyone uniforms.
But then, as the two elephants engage in wrestlemania, how are the grasses faring? Next :a feast for crows and vultures

A STORM OF WORDS (AND SWORDS)

From bike riding, village touring, and popcorn munching in public, to ridiculous primary school uniform wearing and declaring ghetto gangster status, the two real contenders contend for a favourable place in the hearts of the electorate. I mean, there are those who , on account of the congos of rice and bits of the state cake,would love to vote for both candidates. Suddenly all workers are getting paid, and a month to election day roads leading to the home, or house, of the speaker of the house of Representatives, Hon. Najeem Salaam (which happens to be my radius, in a manner of speaking) are getting renovated, and all after 3 and half years of fulfilling promises of full salary payments, all roads in the state being made good, or better, better state of living for all, and clean water, and of course - employment and youth empowerment. Some have been truly fulfilled-unicef water pumps everywhere, some get the privileged of seeing the place their homes once stood now inhabited by beautiful flowers (Or promises of them), workers are still working, with regular payments being made in the form of excuses (until a month to the election of course), and in a feat unprecedented, our youths are employed, dutifully sweeping roads and cleaning gutters. It's all for our good though. Even the state treasury is cleaner(if you get my meaning) , I'm sure y'all know that.
So much talk has been going on too. Rumours fly around and if you've been conversant with your radio, and OSBC, you realise the government isn't ignorant. Claims, then counterclaims, and argument against the plans of the opposition to make the government unpopular by spreading rumours. Once, the government's O'meal project was criticized and accused of importing food materials like eggs and meat from Lagos, and it was immediately discredited by the government via radio, stating that those are being catered for by the O'meal committee, who we were told, get those aforementioned at the Agric campus of the state university - the osun state university, with the Agric satellite campus sited in Ejigbo, osun state. The problem with this simple explanation though, which is quite comical, is that a close relative, an extremely close relative (not wanting to describe relationship with relative for reasons some can guess) is a student at the satellite campus. I have been to the campus several times, and I can tell you positively that the state feeds pupils all over the state everyday with eggs from less than 50 chickens, and meat from an herd of about 50–60 cows. So we can assume that the government of the state actually rely every day on Jesus christ to multiply two eggs and five chunks of meat to feed a couple thousand hungry kids every day. I'm sure the good Lord would have turned down such contract, since he could guess they would claim the miracle was performed by the O'meal committee, and every broken egg blamed on the opposition.
Then of course the opposition, lacking in reach compared to the government who have the radio and television to themselves, start manufacturing testimonies, cooking up delicious rumours of all kinds. The government sings their own songs of praise of praise for the good work of the governor, with all sorts of jingles telling people why they should vote for the right party (which is always said to be the incumbent). Every time you hear a jingle on OSBC or UNIQUE FM that isn't about commercial enterprises, which is scarce enough, it is about the coming election, and voting for the right party. Even the newscasts are about praising the government and defaming and defacing the opposition. And you can guess what all programmes are about.. In fact, the media is so propaganda driven, and one sided, that the broadcasting organisation of Nigeria, BON, has reportedly issued warnings to the state media, threatening to shut them down if they continue down the same road. The chants, songs, slogans, and 'paid messages' continue though. A reporter at one of state media houses has been reported to have admitted to the fact of popular reports that the state dictates to their directors what they must and must not say..

So now it's here. It's been much awaited, much discussed, tentatively anticipated, and very very much prepared for.. By the players, but as a citizen of the state once a living spring, the electorate don't seem to realise they are pieces;playing cards in the hands of the players
THE PLAYERS: A CLASH OF KINGS
Any body will be forgiven for forgetting there are more than two players. In fact, many don't know. But a lone poster or flyer, or two, with the words FADAHUNSI and GOVERNOR, serve as intermittent reminders of the fact that there are more than 2,or 3,or 4 aspirants to the iron throne. The simple fact is just that only 1 person can sit on the throne of power, pain and pressure, whose holder rules and command the affairs of the state, and that there are but two real contenders for the seat of power, two people whose relationship with each other has been heated, scorched, and tempered with hate, contempt,words, violence and blood through a political period of rivalry. Two people who know each other only too well. Two men who differ in style , approach, and purpose. One coming through from years and seasons of allegations, attacks, imprisonment denial, despair, disappointment, dissatisfaction, and betrayal. And engraved amongst those,release upheaval, delight, determination,demand,power and authority, influence and affluence, reason,and dare I say it MONEY! lot's and lot's of MONEY.
The other though, to many average Osun citizens like me, was much unknown while he was a commissioner in Lagos. He bust, no, blew into sudden limelight in the election season of the state in 2007,when, competing under the banners of the Action congress, AC(which is essentially a redesign of the previously ousted AD, then represented by it's gubernatorial candidate and ex governor Bisi Akande, who is currently the national leader of the party's now again redesigned appearance, The APC, or is he still?) against the then incumbent governor, prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who was a candidate of the PDP. After being declared vanquished, he was declared Victor 3 years later in controversial circumstances, by the appeal court, and judge (Ayo?) Salami,who has since been debarred. Well, he became governor, voted in, supposedly, in an election where cutlasses and guns were more of the electorate than the human partakers, used by.. Both parties actually. Well let's forget those now, it's a new season, where the election peacekeepers will probably outnumber the electorate. Whatever whatever.
So in a couple of days,the good people of osun state ,male and female, old and young, politically enlightened and the politically bigoted, the wise and the foolish dickheads (we have an especially high number of the later): will all get the chance to choose our next leader and(Or) dictator. With the kinda electorate we have in osun state, I can only tremble and bite my nails to the quilt at the prospect. A grizzly prospect it is when you see people who claim that a collapsed building was bombed, and spread the word about a conspiracy to destroy a school hall with an atomic bomb..
So, who is it gonna be, Iyiola Omisore or Rauf Aregbesola? Will it be "eyan iyi" or oranmiyan?
Next part: the last few months : political propaganda, and election politics

kolomax: like what you said last season.........so get ready for 10th
mean while Arsene wenger

My my my!! That second pic would surely force a smile on Mr wenger's face. Made it urself?

ichidodo: [color=#1980BC] I fuccking hate Chelsae... [/color]

Isn't that why you post in blue?

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The smart launcher

Well I can't see any SMART launcher screen shots

This is quite sad for football. Even the BLIND and the lame are getting in on the act :-D

Country music, pop, tungba (as a top talkingdrummer), juju (Ebenezer tinz), soundtracks, esp Disney films'... In fact, all genres of music (or rather all songs) which doesn't involve ridiculous screaming or rhymeless rap(*corner - eyeing Lil Wayne with a sly look)

I love Brad Paisley and his music,Westlife,M.I,carrie underwood,..etc. But country music, and the guitar, are especial gifts of God to humanity, ya dig?

LB:Oshaniwa :Well, almost same as his team mate higher up the pitch. He played very positively, pumping and busting forward forward with purpose... Only to get near the box and seem purposeless, and then pass to someone else. That just pretty much sums it all up for him.
Rating : 6/10

RB:Efe Ambrose - The super Eagles have never really in recent memory been blessed with world class left or right backs.Efe Ambrose of course played his part,and when compared to his recent performances,he can be said to have done well. Going back, he was somewhat lacking in pace, which left the left wing a bit porous to Argentine attacks. With odemwingie backpeddling to cover the defence though, his flaws were especially exposed. One cannot deny the power in his forward surges, but they, as always lacked an edge. His crossing was as always :poor, and like you would expect he wasn't great with cutbacks either. He had one moment in deleting the Argentine left back to create a chance, which he made use of only to win a corner kick.
Rating : 6/10

I'd say every player played quite... Differently, and more positively. Rather than pinpoint a specifically outstanding player, let's just consider each player's performance, shall we?
1:GK - Vincent Eyeama - the lille stopper, recently named the best black player in the French ligue 1,undoubtedly the best goalkeeper in Africa, actually lived up to expectations despite Argentina getting 3 past him. He stopped two terrific efforts from Angel di Maria, forced lethal striker Higuain out in two one v one situations, and rushed and gathered potentially dangerous balls. He even stopped a fierce Lionel Messi free kick in the first half, before the Argentine got the better of him from a closer range. All 3 goals owed to defensive failure to clear loose balls and a moment of magic from the ex-world no1, Messi. Overall, he put in a brave shift
Rating ;8/10

And that perfectly.

I guess his shirt matches his situation.