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“Further to my letter dated 18th January 2017 in which I notified the Distinguished Senate of taking part of my annual leave.

“During my leave, I took the opportunity to have routine check-ups and consult my long standing doctors in London.

“In the course of the routine examinations, certain test result indicated the need for a course of medications and further appointments have been scheduled for next week.

“I am therefore notifying the Distinguished Senate that I am extending my leave until the doctors are satisfied that certain factors are ruled out. In the circumstances, the vice president will continue to act on my behalf.

“Please accept, Distinguished Senate President, the assurances of my highest consideration.”

President Buhari’s letter dated 7th May, 2017, read in full, ” In compliance with section 145 {1) of the 1999 constitution as amended. I wish to inform the distinguished Senate that I will be away for a scheduled medical followup with my doctors in London. The length of my stay will be determined by the doctor’s advice. “While I am away the vice president will coordinate the activities of the government. Pls accept the distinguished senate president the assurances of my highest consideration.”

davodyguy:
Its either those printings are fake or from murdered policemen

Olabestonic001:
People hardly chose based on the foolery the op and his ilks are fanning; people chose what pays them! The Truth is because of the Igbo man natural love for money, he might find it difficult to survive in ministry. Ministry doesn't give steady source of income till its well grounded. Also, if folks thinks you're not serving their best interests (sometimes at your own peril), you'd do badly in ministry. That's where most Igbo's loose it; they are a very self-serving, ready-to-cheat-you, never-wanting-you-to-cheat-him set of people and might find it to do well in ministry.
Maybe Igbos needs to grow up and look within rather than blaming everyone whenever some things doesn't favor them!

Mophasa:
Not my business

Lagos is a "No man's land"

#Fayose2019

Eko oni baje

Do you know that?
1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez – a French construction company and cost £5 million.
2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and a PhD from University of Port-Harcourt.
3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi, which means “The Mountain of Death”.
4. There are 196 countries in the world and at least one Igbo person from Nigeria lives in every one of them.
5. The Pidgin word ‘Sabi’ came from ‘Saber’, Portuguese and Spanish for ‘to know’. Both countries’ ships traded slaves from the Bight of Benin.
6. Katsina College (now Barewa College in Zaria) has produced 5 Nigerian Presidents/Heads of State since it was founded in 1921 in Katsina.
7. Ojukwu taught Murtala Mohammed and Ben Adekunle at Regular Officers Special Training School, Ghana. Both ‘fought’ their teacher during the civil war
8. At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, there were 41 Secondary Schools in the North and 842 Secondary Schools in the South.
10. In 1973, the Federal Government of Nigeria considered officially changing the name of Lagos to Eko, Regarding “Lagos” as a colonial name.
11. The geographical area now referred to as Nigeria was once referred to as ‘Soudan’ and ‘Nigiritia’.
12. Offences punishable by death sentence after the 1966 coup included embezzlement, rape and homosexuality.
13. MKO Abiola was named Kashimawo (Let us wait and see) by his parents. He was his father’s twenty-third child, but the first to survive infancy.
14. Jaja Wachucku was the first person to refer to Lagos as a “no-man’s land” in 1947, provoking a national controversy.
15. Jollof rice, chicken breast, a small cup ice cream, tea, coffee or Bournvita, with full cream milk and sugar made up a complete meal in Unilag in the late 1970s. Cost : 50 kobo.
16. At the point of death in 1989, Sam Okwaraji was a PhD candidate and qualified lawyer with an LL.M in International Law (University of Rome)
17. When British Bank of West Africa (now First Bank) opened a branch in Kano in 1929, Alhassan Dantata (Dangote’s Grandfather) opened an account depositing 20 camel-loads of silver coins.
18. Jaja Wachuku is reputed to have owned the biggest one-man library in West Africa. Balewa sometimes referred to him as “Most Bookish Minister
19. The colonization of Nigeria took more than 40 years to achieve and the territories were integrated by the use of force.
20. Yoruba is spoken as a ritual language the Santeria cult in Caribbean and South-Central America.
21. Slavery existed in the Nigerian territory before the 15th century and was abolished in the 19th century- 1807 by the British.
22. At least 55 women were killed in South-East Nigeria, in 1929 when the women forced the Umuahia warrant chiefs to submit to their rule.
23. The coinage ‘Supreme Court’ was first used in 1863 by the colonial administration through the enactment of the Supreme Court Ordinance No. II.
24. MKO Abiola died suddenly on July 7, 1998, exactly one month after General Sani Abacha died mysteriously on June 8, 1998.
25. Agbani Darego was the only one to wear a maillot as opposed to a bikini during the Miss Universe contest in 2001.
26. The ‘Ankara’ material is not indigenous to Nigeria. Our indigenous textiles include the Akwete, Ukara, Aso-Oke and Adire.
27. Aloma Mukhtar is the first female lawyer from the North. She went on to become the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria.
28. The area known as Makoro town in Lagos was first a swamp, later sand-filled by the colonial government and served as the first bridge to the Island.
29. Esie Museum is Nigeria’s first museum, established in 1945. Once reputed to have the largest collection of soapstone images in the world.
30. Aminu Kano formed the Northern Teachers’ Association (NTA) in 1948, the first successful regional organization in the history of the North.
31. George Goldie, who played a major role in founding Nigeria, placed a curse on anyone who attempts to write his biography.
32. In 1996, John Ogbu, a Nigerian Anthropologist firmly advocated for the use of African-American Vernacular to teach in the U.S
33. Hausa language indigenous to Northern Nigeria is spoken in 11 African States. Germany, French, U.S., and British International radio stations broadcast in Hausa.
34. The surgeon who ‘killed’ Stella Obasanjo was sentenced to 1 year in prison, disqualified for 3 years and fined €120,000.
35. The word ‘asiri’ means ‘secret’ in Hausa, Yoruba, Nupe and Igarra. It also means ‘gossip’ in Igbo.
36. Igbo-Ora in Oyo State, Kodinji in India and Candido Godoi in Brazil are the towns that produce the highest number of twin births in the world.
37. Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba, in 1857 produced a reading book for the Igbo Language and a full grammar and vocabulary of NUPE in 1864.
38. The first TV broadcast in Nigeria and Tropical Africa was on October 31, 1959.
39. In 1978, a 50Kobo increase (from N1.50 to N2) in the cost of University Students’ meal per day caused the ‘Ali Must Go’ protests.
40. Albert E. Kitson discovered coal in Enugu in 1909. This discovery led to the building of Port-Harcourt town in 1912.
41. Today, only Nigeria has a larger black population than Brazil. More than 3.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved and transported to Brazil.
42. Groundnut pyramids were the invention of Alhaji Alhassan Dantata to stack bags before export.
43. In 1967, old traditional ruler, Oba Akran and A. Ademiluyi were jailed for 14 years (7 each) for stealing £504,750 (#2.5b).
44. Since 1960, Nigeria has been either ruled by an ex-lecturer/ex-teacher or military man. The only exceptions are Azikiwe and Shonekan.
45. If you visited Lagos in 1975, you could spend a day at the Presidential Suite of Federal Palace Hotel for N100, single room for N19.
46. The first aircraft to land in Nigeria landed in Kano in July 1925. A British fighter jet flew from Khartoum (present day Sudan).
47. In 1895, Koko of Nembe (now in Bayelsa) took 60 white men hostage. When the British refused his demands, more than 40 of those men were eaten.
48. The ‘Naira’ was coined by Chief Obafemi Awolowo when he was serving as the Federal Commissioner of Finance.
49. Koma Hill (settlement in Adamawa where people lived and practised the killing of twins) was discovered in 1986 by a NYSC corps member.
50. The pilot (Francis Osakwe) that flew Ojukwu away from Biafra (1970) was the same pilot that flew Gowon to Uganda (last flight as Head of State).
51. In 1986, Shehu Shagari was banned from participation in politics for life. The ban has still not been lifted.
52. As the wife of the deputy Head of State (Vice President of Nigeria) in 1984, Biodun Idiagbon personally ran a small ice cream shop in Ilorin..
53. Koma Hills (Adamawa State) inhabitants when discovered were observed to engage in the practice of borrowing wives among themselves.
54. Juju, Danshiki, Yam and Okra are words in the English dictionary that originated from ethnic groups located in present day Nigeria
#copied

aribisala0:
So we have established that more Igboes worship in Yoruba churches than the other way round.Ii wonder why?But is it just in Nigeria or everywhere Nigerian churches are found? Maybe the Igboe led achurches have an image problem just like everything Igboe. Igboes don't know how to talk to people they are generally arrogant and rude so few people even Igboes will turn to them for spiritual guidance
Let me tell you something about Igboes THEY LIE TOO MUCH EVEN TO THEMSELVES and every Nigeria sees the Igboe man as he really is yet he continues to deceive himself a out his reality .

Pierocash:
Pastoral forms is always available for interested persons,hw many ibos pick those forms?Pastoral enlistment is a divine calling and not a career.Every tribe have their area of calling,the Yorubas have more ministerial calling than any tribe in the world,u come to business,the Ibos doninate that field than yorubas,almst every ibo man is naturally a business man so stop twisting facts to suite ur narrative.Evn in sports,The Ibos dominate that field than Yorubas especially football, their was a time in this country almost all the whole national team players whr ibos evn up til nw.
So, every tribe has their area of calling and Yorubas dominates priesthood.And aside frm that,those churches u mentioned have more yoruba followership than ibos u can't take that away frm them,jst the same way in catholic churches have more ibo followership than yorubas.Catholic churches have more ibos as reverend fathers than yorubas because ibos are more catholics than yorubas so i see no logic in ur Submission

blues20:
@ OP, this forum is the wrongest place on this planet to bring up such topic. You are not doing the Igbos good by such hyper-sensitive thread. The Igbo nation will handle her problem with wisdom and decorum, according to time..... in my opinion, this thread is completely useless base on time, place and manner of presentation. You are on your own.

Zebrudaya666:
this is a very stupid and useless thread.
on behalf of nairaland igbos/ipob i disown the op

He's on his own and he's responsible for his opinion

shikina

Elkay3:
Please, did Netanyahu made any mention of the genocide going on in Gaza?

fratermathy:
Since when has Urhoboland become Biafraland? Since when has Urhobo become Bini? Do you think that Urhobos and Bini have the same culture or language?

Do you now want to force us out of our land and claim them as yours? On what basis exactly? Urhoboland was never occupied by Igbos, Urhobos were never in the Eastern Region. Urhobos have no affinity with Igbo. Why would you envisage dispossessing a people of their land because they say no to your cause? Do you see now why BIAFRA MAY NEVER BECOME A REALITY? You cannot start a cause with land grabbing, falsity and annexation. Oghene will not allow it!!! You claim that you want freedom from Nigeria and you want to retain your lands while leaving, why then do you want to suppress those of us who don't sympathise with your cause? You cannot claim to be fighting for freedom and imprison others. God will not allow it... The international community will not allow it... Nigeria will not allow it!!!

I have no beef with your Biafran utopic agitations. But if you want to go, leave Urhobo-Isoko out of it!!!

IPOB youths keep making problems and severing the fractured relationship between Igbo and Urhobo. The day you guys will mistakenly attempt any public march/protest in Urhobo-Isokoland.... That will be the day the culminating effects of these words you spew online will take full shape.

meolaniyi:
Infact, i stop playing bet9ja when i won N21,280 They did not pay me untill i played the
whole money back.

since then I play on Nairabet and they dont waste time in paying. Bet9ja is 419

Eshinwaju:
The mods should close this lying thread down......adesina never said that...

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has started a battle of sorts without realizing it. You see he wrote an article titled: PMB’s health: Gloating is of no value published in Premium Times. A friend and colleague who had been so disturbed by the same hateful messages that Mr. Adesina referred to in his article shared the link in WhatsApp groups we manage and to his utter shock still got people that said President Buhari that we have now is actually ‘a clone’. Yes, some people suggested this. My friend being a passionate person felt he needed to leave a group he is an administrator of just because of this. But that is not my style, I responded to these people with the following:

I am afraid at the degree of propaganda, ignorance and hate that young people from Eastern Nigeria in particular are feeding themselves with. If there is a major criticism I have of this government, it is that it is not doing enough to counter it.

It is all over social media and conventional media. There is hardly any Nigerian that lives in a city that does not have Igbo friends that they respect, probably admire and learn from.

However, if a large enough number of people that claim to be Igbo especially the youth insist on being obnoxious and offensive to the point of odioum, you risk compounding whatever problems you think you have in Nigeria.

Let me guess, you say: ‘give us Biafra’. Please, the Anambra man does not love the Abia or Imo man. Most of you want to treat Ebonyi people with scorn. Your problem is not a lack of Biafra or being in Nigeria, it is a lack of good social etiquette, political acumen and unwillingness to cooperate with others.

There are many Igbo people fed-up with this kind of behaviour of some of their kinsmen but they are afraid of being attacked by a blind set of marauders feeding on hate.

It is time Igbo people with enlightenment, elegance and distinction takeover the discussion on the progress and future of the Igbo. What we have right now are Charlatans and inept thinkers.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/hate-propaganda-future-east