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ngozievergreen: u have a point in your first sentences esp.
Representatives in the opposition should serve as an eye to us just like Ezeudu, a pagan in Arrow of God asked his son to join the white man's religion just to act as an eye for him.
But then, the son, Oduche failed woefully, and his popsy was d object of ridicule by his kinsmen who had opposed the motion an ignitio.
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What am saying is that Ngige and Rochas are not representing us well at all and their activities showed that the party is more impt to them than the ppl.
A na eme ya eme?
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When the first intl flight from Enugu airport was celebrated, no prominent APC member was present, what were they trying to prove?
That its a pdp airport, and not an eastern airport again?
Whenever SE guvs host a meeting, Rochas must be absent, unlike pre APC days?
what does that mean?
What was Ngige 's stand on the deportation saga?
How come he did a campaign on an ofala day? Is he not an Igbo elder again?
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So, how exactly are they serving as an eye to us with all these uncouthness?
They just did a bad advertisement of apc in SE.
Its only obvious they had put the satisfaction of their godfathers buhari and co before their ppl.
U and I know the consequences of allowing ofekes to govern the state, aka na ekwu na oku na agba anyi already, ha achoro igbanyekwu ya fuel .
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What am saying is that we need wiser representatives in APC.
Ndi o ga abu ihe daputa na that party, ha abia gbaara anyi ama, si anyi lekwa lekwa ihe na aga, o bughi ndi ga agbakuta ndi nke ha azu, ka ha meta ndi nuu mma.
In essence, I had liked the idea of rochas and co joining APC, but they are going about it wrongly.

No single politician anywhere is anywhere to represent you. I don't know what gave you the idea that Rochas or Ngige is representing you? Whatever party they are now is just a platform to contest election and I don't know why folk worry themselves about his petty issues.
How many of them in the PDP will venture to mention the word Biafra among their Nigerian buddies? Tell me which one among them, then I will agree with you that they are representing you. Why folk thinks that APC is evil and PDP is somehow angelic I don't know. Its all about platform to contest election. Didn't this Tinubu of today worked with GEJ behind the scene in 2011 to defeat Buhari in the South West?

noblezone: Our best interest for now is to shun APC!
You can not know our best interest more than us!

ACN was a South West Party, CPC and ANPP were northern parties.
We can not join the bandwagon the way Rochas did without negotiation.

It is in our interest to negotiate before we join!

If you are even contemplating joining sometime in the future doesn't wisdom dictate that Rochas being there to keep eyes on things for you until you feel you are ready to join?
Why hate/crucify the forerunner now over something that you wish to join sometime in the future? . It doesn't make any sense all this permutations.
By the way, I believe few people are aware that the treaty that created Nigeria in 1914 which was given a life shell of hundred years expires mid night 31st December 2014 under UN a mandate.
Hence their hurrying/rushing to formulate another one, a.k.a national conference. Because from that day, any of the ethnic nationalities has right under international law to to secede. Don't say I told, a top NADECO friend from the SW whispered it to me yesterday over lunch.

0monnakoda: Euphemism for what
Stick to words you know old man

On that last word, I leave it for you King Solomon to figure it out by yourself as the old man need some kip now. Cheerio!

0monnakoda: I don't wear sandals

Its an euphemism.

0monnakoda: That will take a great collaboration between Jesus and Amadioha

Miracle can happen. If you are this wise, hopefully one day I will tie your sandals. It can happen.

[quote author=re@lchange]why is nobody finding the balls to touch diezani alison madueke? answer: she is ijaw![/quote]Exactly my point. In Nigeria, comparing ethnic/tribal criminals is the culture.

0monnakoda: Who is comparing tribl thieves? Not only do you talk foolishly you also lie. I criticized the young man who put forward the defence on the grounds that she was being persecuted because she is Ibo. My point is several Yorubas have been prosecuted and convicted. The groundswell of opinion in Yoruba land has not been to come out and claim so and so is being persecuted because they are Yoruba. Was Balogun not jailed under Obasanjo.
When Nike Grange was sacked did you here any Yoruba defence Youth league threatening fire and brimstone??
Here the Overwhelming voice from Ibos has been to defend this woman. How can you then characterize this as "comparing tribal thieves" You are consistent in your foolish utterances and I might have to revise my earlier statement about you not being a fool

In as much as I love your king Solomon utterances, you should by now learned how to ignore my foolish ones. One day, you never know, I will becomes as wise as you.

atlwireles: The issues remain the same, there is an allegation, which needs to be investigated. let's await the result, before making any conclusion. The Minster has a right to due process.

We all knew what allegation investigation in Nigeria means- brush it under the carpet until another/bigger new deed surfaced and the old one is forgotten.

Kponkwem: At least its good to start from somewhere

I don't have problem with his business venture, which is a good thing, although been presented as a charity. What I have problem with was, the quote about the percentage of Igbo drinking. Drinking, health wise is not a good thing and at the end a bad economics, because of the drain it create on the healthcare purse of the people.

atlwireles: Those are the words of Dele sobowale, the great defender of the yorubas

He is entitled to his opinion, just like me and you. Of which you can ignore his.

0monnakoda: yes back to the issue. Can we stop Ibonizing the issue. The woman should have the decency to resign . I don't even know that she is the one that bought the car but there has been a breach of our laws on her watch and so she should go first. She is the boss and is responsible. She has failed in her duties.
Next we should then investigte who has authorized the purchase and that seems to be a criminal offence under our laws.That should be prosecuted. It is not complex at all

This exactly what you should be saying all along, not you guys comparing tribal thieves-who happens to be the worst?

Igbo people consume over 58% drinks that are consumed in Nigeria, is that supposed to be a good thing?

atlwireles: "The current Minister of Aviation is the first Minister to ever attract my attention in this regard because of mounting evidence of her deliberate tribal hostility. She has started the war; she will not determine when it will end and how".

Unfortunately you will not either.

I don't support the supposed car purchase, but it people like you with opinion like this that is helping rogue Nigeria politicians, who careless where you and me comes from when it come to lining their private pocket. By the way, am talking to the writer of the bolded.-atiwireles

lygn19: Ok, while u wait for it, I want u to open ur facebook account and search for sahara reporters, after u re done I want u to tell me what u think wud be d result of d verdict after looking at d source of d entire saga.

I knew for a fact that there are our Igbo guys at Saharareporters. What am I suppose to see on this facebook page? Like I said before, don't give your enemies even the slightest of a chance.

0monnakoda: Misquote? I have not quoted so the question of misquoting does not arise. I just observe that you talk foolishly which does not mean you are a fool by the way

Ok, lets leave it at that, it seems we had a different understanding of the English language, lets others be the judge of that. Now back to the issue-Stella Oduah and millionzed dollar mercedes.

0monnakoda: I said you talk foolishly I didn't say you are a fool so there is no problem.

Now you are misquoting your own words, not me,

lygn19: Ok what if at the end d whole Bullet proof car saga turns out false?

You mean at the end, we are to hear that the car doesn't exist or that we will be told that it was lawfully purchased? I wait for that verdict.

0monnakoda: Well you talk foolishly that was why I asked the first question. If you cannot be polite just stay away from me. Do not quote me telling me I am saying rubbish. At your age you should have learnt abot actions and reactions

In my understanding of English language, saying rubbish doesn't mean that you're rubbish or being called rubbish either. I have said many rubbish things in the past, unless you are so perfect that you haven't.

This is an interactive forum, if you don't want to be quoted, go to the one where no one is quoted and stop going on about your age. Again this is an internet forum, why getting angry over an issue me and you knew nothing about. Relax, as I am relaxed.

lygn19: Its not a mata of thief, all am saying is that stella oduah shud be given fair hearing, if she is found guilty, she shud be sacked,but if the opposite is d case, let her sue d newspaper that published d falsehood from sahara reporters, u can't say she is guilty yet u don't want her to defend herself.

Fair hearing about what in particular? That she didn't spend public money to buy a car that cost that much? Or that people are making it up? In many sane countries, she can go to jail for this, let alone talking about fair hearing for her to keep her job after all this. But this is Nigeria, every section is protecting their own best thieves.

0monnakoda: Okay since we have established that you are a foolish old man please do not quote me till you learn some etiquette

I didn't claim to be foolish either. Stop making things up please.

0monnakoda: You claim to be old That usually implies wisdom

I claimed to be old, hwo does one claims to be old, my good friend?
Who decides what is wisdom? Ask your parent if every old person in your village is considered wise.
Old is not necessarily becoming wise and I never told you that I am packed with wisdom, I don't know who gave you that idea. I am only expressing my opinion, you don't have to like it and I don't have to like yours either.

0monnakoda: Tafa Balogun
Bode George
Patricia Etteh
Dimeji Bankole
to name a few have all had trouble with the law. No one played the ethnic card. In fact Yorubas celebrated the Jailing of Balogun and Georgre
Why are you folk like this?
The same way you killed Balewa nd Akintola and spared Zik and Okpara. You think every other person is stupid

Rubbish, you didn't celebrate anything. If there is law, Balogun would have spend the rest of his pitiful life in jail without any option of being released. When Bode George was release, some of you had a street party in Lagos, that started with a motorcade from Kirikiri prison.

lygn19: If stella oduah is found guilty she shud be sacked, not a situation where a site dats fond of spreading falsehood comes up with things, without investigation they want her sac, d worse is that they want it to be done quickly I.e as fast as possible b4 d lie comes to the surface,but I thankGod GEJ is smarter than they re.
They re saying Igbo's re corrupt, can u compare stella oduah to faani kayode, that was just made minister, d 1st thing he did was to steal 9billion naira aviation intervention fund. Dz one he wz caught red handed, not from a social network or media. Yoruba u ppl re THIEVES, I wonder d amount u have stolen behind d northerners, u ppl use them as front while u use ur pen to steal d millions, right under der nose. Bloody HYPOCRITES

So in that case, this is just a case of our thief is better than your thief then? Classic Nigeria.

If someone wants or is desperate to hang you, you do not go into the forest and fashioned out the best/strongest rope possible and gave it to your anchoring hang man as present? If he uses the rope you gave him on you, you got only yourself to blame.

Only a sane person will sanction the purchase of an auto vehicle that cost that much in a third world economy, using public money and expect his/her enemy to congratulate the person. She alone is the genesis of her problems.
Her so called enemies did not force her to buy such a car.

Hello peeps,it was few months ago that I wrote that I will be signing off for a while, in order to have a total required rest after my above knee amputation. I will like to first of all, thank you all for your kind and heart warming goodwill messages. I read them all and sincerely appreciated them.

My recovery had been very impressive from the start till now. I never allowed my age to hamper the pace of my recovery, to the extent that my son (my surgeon) awarded me the unofficial best patient he had ever had award. Though he may be bias in his assessment/prognosis, with me being his father, but he is not far from being right. (lol)
I used my nearly 40 years experience as an orthopaedic surgeon to help myself a great deal, regarding do's and do nots. As five (5) days after my surgery I tried and succeeded in sitting down on a chair and subsequently standing up (cos I knew the importance/benefit). After a week, I was walking around in crutches (though not advisable due to high chances of falling down)

Two weeks later, the stitches were taken off and I left the hospital and went to a newly opened NHS rehab centre in Kennington London. There I preferred to spend more of times in the gym rather than in bed. I was ridding the gym bikes like there is no tomorrow, pulling/lifting weights and every thing that could help with my blood circulation and breathing.
So my surgery was at my co-owned hospital and my rehab was with a public healthcare centre. Which works out quite well in terms of cost to me and the public.

Almost immediately I was taken off the anaesthesia, I started to feel the phantom sensation pain. Phantom pain, is a neurological inspired pain you can get after an amputation. This is where your brain still send signal/impulses to the part of the body that has been amputated as if they are still there and this signal come out as pain, even though the part is not there anymore. And in most cases, it seem that the patient is still seeing the gone limb.

So the higher the level of pain you got before amputation, the higher the rate/chances of your phantom pain. So mine is immense because of my pre-surgery chronic pains was too much. Unfortunately for the likes of me, there is no known cure. Some therapies like mirror visual imagery, acupuncture has helped some people, some are lucky-their brain soon recognised that the amputated limb is gone and stopped sending signals.

So after two weeks in the rehab, my stump was measured as the wound has completely healed to my amazement, despite my age. Then another two weeks passed, I couldn't contained my excitement as my knew prosthetic limb arrived. My wife, children and all my grand children were there when I was presented with what will become part of me for the nearest future.
Privately, my prosthesis helped me to put it on. Like a little girl showing off her new dress, I came out sitting on my wheelchair and appeared before my family, with the gasping shout of Wow!! from them.
Grandad you got a robotic leg! That is wicked and so cool! my grand children yelled.

We were all happy and my wife cried a little bit. But the hard work of learning how walk with it, starts from there. And I can tell you, it really! really! a handwork no matter your age. It makes you appreciate babies as they learned how to walk.

I used my experience in the field to get the prosthetic limb available and that will be suited for my lifestyle, irrespective of the cost. The one I got will cost around £35,000 if am paying for it in my hospital.
Its one of the best around, at the moment.

It's very high-tech. its fitted with some micro chip that analysis how normally you will walk and will build a data around it, and control how you walk with every step you take. With that, you cannot trip, which is very common with most prosthesis for above knee amputees as the built in computer understand various ground surfaces.

So eight weeks in the rehab, I was discharged to go home finally. But before I was discharged, am happy to say that I was walking with the aid of one crutch and, but as I write this to you, I am now walking without the aid of anything, not even a walking stick.

When I put on a trouser standing up, you cannot guess which is the false leg. I am still walking with a limp, but it will improve over time. I am now driving regularly. Even last week I drove from my home in Surrey to Paris in France through Calais without problems, with me and my daughter taking turns, driving.
I just bought a new bicycle, am learning how to ride it again, especially with my grandchildren in the countryside roads of Surrey. I cannot forget to mention that the quality of food in the NHS centre/hospital has improved greatly since I last worked for them. You can now even ordered ethnic food like Jollof rice, Chicken stew rice, and many India/chinese/afro caribbean foods of your choice.

Everything has been awesome, as the American will describe it and I will thank the almighty and my family he used to take good care of me and also the fantastic British healthcare system you cannot beat. My whole first class treatment at least would have at least cost £142,899 when we did the calculation, if I was to be a foreigner seeking such a treatment in a British private hospital like mine.

My wife was brilliant, God know how much of mileage she clocked driving from Surrey every single day I was in the hospital and rehab to visit me. My daughter took a month off her job and came down with my grandchildren from her base in Doha to help her mother.
My son and his wife were not just immense but unbelievably great. There was no Italian delicacy my daughter in-law didn't specially prepared and brought for me, her being Italian. To keep me occupied, I also now studies the bible once a week now with the Jehovah's Witnesses for the past one month and I can't believe that I am enjoying what I am learning for the first time.

One of the nurses in my hospital (Olubukola), who happens to be the longest serving nurse in my hospital, visits me each weekend while I was in hospital and rehab. And each time, she will come with some delicious Nigerian dishes, especially the Igbo dishes, which I was marvelled how well she can cook it, knowing that she is not Igbo herself.

Until she told me that some of the Igbo dishes like Ofe Oha or Ura she bought from a Nigerian restaurant, of which we cracked a lot of jokes about, when I queried and some she learned how to cook them from her Igbo friends, she told me. Her visits does cheer me up, especially the day she came with he five children. She is now more like a daughter to me than an employee, all these years.

Now back to the real deal--which is NAIRALAND. I had been reading your stuff, whenever I can and nothing has changed, with the usual fire works. The usual issues of bad governance from top to bottom, Rotimi Amaechi, GEJ, bullet proof cars etc. Hopefully I will fully rejoined you soon.

I planned to take a break with a visit to Biafraland with the whole of my family, as those at home wants to see me too. They were great through Facebook, Skype. Viber and whatsapp, you name them.

And guess what? We will be landing at Enugu International Airport. That is so great. But I tell you what! it was the most expensive airfare me and my family had ever paid (£8k+) for all us. So expensive!
Maybe because only two airline goes there, so far.

But I didn't mind, as its the symbolism of it that matters to us.
No longer having to fly to Lagos or to the north before going to my homeland, which take ages and very risky at times. This time, 25 minutes after arrival, I am in my Enugu residential home. It can't get better than that.

So I will like to thank all you again, and may Jah guide and protect all of you.
Regards Eziachi

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Hello people, due to serious health reasons I will be signing off for a while. I HAD AN ABOVE THE KNEE AMPUTATION OF MY LEFT LEG ON WEDNESDAY at my own hospital in central London. The surgeon was my own son, which made it a bit comforting. The leg had been problematic for a long time and I had used all my knowledge and skill as an orthopaedic to managed it until now when it worsen, I was told two weeks ago that the leg is now almost dead and had to go.

I have performed this surgery on hundreds of people over a span of forty odd years, but still, it was mentally challenging waking up for the first time as an amputee. So I will be reading your posts when I can, but will be signing off for a while. You take care.

noblezone: This is a mock news of the events in rivers State.
imagine that there is a divide in the senate.
Pro Jonathan and anti Jonathan.

Imagine the above headlines!
then you can imagine the menace of the tout called Amaechi.

Amaechi stormed the Assembly with soldiers! I got this from an eye witness.
To show who is in charge.

As much as it is wrong for 5 of the law makers to attempt an impeacment, (alothugh their argument is that the speaker and others has been suspended by the party, Amaechi ought not have stormed the assebly.
Where is the rule of law?

i know that he is a darling of the "opposition", but gangster-ism will surely destroy him.
He has shown by his act that right inside his pocket are the law makers.
I heard he would be addressing Assembly staff tomorrow.

Imagine Jonathan to address the national Assemble staff over crises in the national Assembly,

It is a shame!

How can Amaechi managed to storm a house with soldiers, he isn't their commander-in-chief and where was the proper commander-in-chief of those soldiers?
Do you think, the deposed governor Silva will be having his breakfast this morning, thinking! How I wish I had storm the Bayelsa house too?
When the Oga at the top bring in a way of life, those below will follow suite as a survival mechanism.
What does that tell you about your country Nigeria?

Rossikk: So what are you doing on a Nigerian site?

I never understand this about you 'Biafran' wannabes. You detest Nigeria so much yet you find yourself here everyday.

Makes no sense to me.

You should ask a Palestinian what he is doing on Israeli site as well. Nigeria is occupying my homeland since 1970, if that is not enough reason for you, then,its online site as you right called it, so its free not just for Nigerian green passport carriers but to a global audience. In the same breath, you detest Biafra so much, but it still attract you like a rotten mango attracts a fly.
Next question.

De Noble: My brother I have 2 questions for you:
1. In Nigeria today, who do you think needs who?
2. Do you think Jonathan won because of the Northern votes?

Well I don't have any questions for you.
But If you still believe in one Nigeria, which I don't, and which Jonathan believes, I think he needs not just northern votes but western votes too. Unless you thinks that mathematics is irrelevant in an election.

thelastPope: There were voices on the background but we dont know from that how many people were present. We will find out in the coming days. But they did have an impeachment with the mace present. I think a lot will come down to how many people are on both sides. But it isnt looking good for Amaechi at all at all

Gosh! How I love your self made sense of justice and justifications. Where are you going with this your mace is present hammering? You are not bothered by the actions and the reactions of what happenned where thugs make law for their slaves, but kept going on about God (mace) is present or not?
This is a welcome back to the Obasanjo's bygone years of impeachment before breakfast.
I love you Nigerians!