₦airaland Forum

When the looting was good, he was happy being photographed. Now that things have taken a different turn, he's hiding his face in shame.
He and many others are the main reasons why we have a large contingent of jobless youths.

We are just too wicked in this country...killing a fellow citizen all because of politics. The main actors are alive enjoying themselves.
A state of emergency should be declared...

This is highly controversial if the story is true.
Nigerians and nepotism - 'man-know-man' syndrome is really killing us in this country.
We are the architect of our own misfortune.

Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti

Private schools in Ekiti State on Monday began a three-day strike to protest against the imposition of N1,000 development levy per term on their pupils by Governor Ayodele Fayose.

The State Government had announced N1, 000 per term as education development levy for public secondary school pupils while those in primary schools were to pay N500.

Government, however, in a circular from the Ministry of Education, extended the development levy to private schools.

But the National Association of Proprietors and Proprietress of Private Schools in Ekiti contended that the extension of the levy to private schools ran contrary to the spirit and letters of Section 42(1) (a) and (b) of the 1999 Constitution.

The president of the Association, Alhaji Saka Adeleye, while addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti on Monday said private schools in the state would remain shut for three days to protest multiple taxation from government.

Adeleye wondered why the government extended the levy to private schools that enjoyed no benefit from government, despite paying 12 different taxes imposed on them.

He listed the taxes to include Annual Renewal Fee, Personal Income Tax, Pay As You Earn for Staff, Personal Development Fee, Registration of Business Premises Fee, Environment Levy, Vehicle Permit fee and Tenement Rate.

“There is no infrastructural development to private schools. Nothing was given to us to develop our schools, all they (government) do is to extort us with taxes. Even during the outbreak of the deadly disease-Ebola-no kit was given to us.

“We call on the ministry to withdraw forthwith all the circular letters relating to payment of the newly I traduced development levy in private schools in the state and/or any other development levy.”

NAPPS also appealed to the governor to look into the unwieldy and/or uncoordinated nature and the arbitrariness and/or un lawfulness of the assessments of other fees currently being paid by their members.

http://www.punchng.com/ekiti-private-schools-shut-to-resist-fayoses-policy/

Is this for real...at this rate most medical students will gladly do their studies in Ghana.

Adjournment upon adjournment until further notice...it seems nobody from the prosecutors & the defendant are prepared at all.

An agent of the Lagos Building Control Agency would be very much aware that building work has resumed on the previously sealed property.
It's high time these builders are prosecuted and jailed for manslaughter.
RIP to the dead.

It is clearly in some people's nature to quarrel, because it's like 2nd nature for them.

How can a friend killed his friend over some arguement about two fellows who are multi-millionaires and who doesn't even know if these friends exist.

So sad.

The Ooni is displaying his imperial majesty by making the lady a female member of his ever expending harem.

Fine guys like the Ooni will not stop at just having one wife...he will want to exceed his predecessors...

Like play, like play...the director of Ipob will spend almost a year in prison before his trial even starts...i really pity him & his followers.

Mr Olumide Oresegun is now popular, check out the article by online news media The Cable.

https://www.thecable.ng/tribute-the-captivating-almost-flawless-paintings-of-olumide-oresegun

The message of Jesus Christ is very simple, why all these extras just to be popular?

Such a sad news - at least the bereaved were accosted some courtesy by placing them in bag...instead of putting them in public domain.

Ndume should have devoted his time and efforts to passing bills which are advantageous to the Nigerian population.

What a wastage of public resources.

At least our 'foreign minister' president is not the one travelling...watching patiently if there's any adjustment to the MTN fine...

It's Saraki who has been delaying the CCT trials by going to the different courts in the past few months. At least he has no excuse, he went from the Appeal court all the way to the Supreme Court.

I can imagine if this is under a different government, his appeal will still be pending until forever in the Appeal court.

Let him enjoy his day at the CCT trials.

Like play, like play, the director of ipobi has already spent almost 6 months in a zoo prison....

To Folks who are so much interested in historical facts, the article below is quite a very lenghty one. In view of this, only a section of it will be available here. If you want the full article, please refer to the link....it's about the history of samba and the role black women played in making it a culture that has remained for over a century...

Samba is the enduring symbol of resistance of black culture. And black women were essential for it to continue existing in post-slavery period. If not for them, the samba would not exist today.

The origin of Samba in Brazil is uncertain. But all the possible explanations suggest that the roots of the genre are in Africa and were brought by black slaves in the Brazilian colonial period.

However, shortly after its inception, the rhythm was threatened with extinction. Not long after the abolition of slavery the Lei da Vadiagem (Vagrancy Act) (1941), was sanctioned, which considered idleness to be a crime and allowed the arrest of people who walked the streets without documents.

This directly affected the black men who were unemployed, often homeless and without any possibility of getting hired due to the strong racial prejudice of the time.

“The post-abolitionist period marked the strong persecution of any Afro-Brazilian sounds, accents, dance and religiosity aimed at maintaining traditions that Brazilian society wanted so badly to erase. In this context, the importance of black women was essential, because in addition to economically maintaining their families – as they continued to work as maids in casas grandes (big houses/homes of slave masters) – they were essential for the resistance of the samba. In Rio de Janeiro, Tia (Aunt) Ciata, who today would be what is commonly known as a mãe de santo (holy mother), stands out as a collective memory. In her home the samba that was forbidden would happen, where names like Pixinguinha, Sinhô and many others met and could compose.”

Kelly Adriano de Oliveira, a Ph.D in social sciences from Unicamp, states that the women as well as Afro-Brazilian religion played a major role for the samba to be able to resist, because it was within terreiros of the houses of Bahian aunts – whose symbol was marked in Tia Ciata – in the private and hidden space, that samba could happen.

No wonder the appreciation of the wing of the Bahian samba schools is a way to honor not only Tia Ciata, but the memory of all Bahian aunts of the samba.

Pioneering women in the history of samba

The anthropologist says that only after the 1930s did the samba come to be accepted as popular culture, reinforced by President Getúlio Vargas “with the movement for the appreciation of what was Brazilian, what makes Brazil Brazil, and the attempt to incorporate a false racial democracy, of a country that supposedly accepts its blackness and its roots.”

“In this way it left the private where it maintained itself as resistance and went to the public sphere as a national symbol, women went on to have less participation in this process, because of all sexist trappings of time, where the street was no place for women among other questions … Thus begins a male predominance in samba spaces.”

A female framework within the history of the samba, amid all this immense difficulty is the Madrinha Eunice (Godmother Eunice), a woman whose memory of struggle is immeasurable. “She was the first woman to chair a samba school, Lavapés of São Paulo, which emerged in fact more like a Carnival cord,” contextualizes Kelly.

However, it was really only after the 60’s that women could have some visibility within the musical spectrum of samba and then carioca (native of Rio) names such as names like Clementina de Jesus and Dona Ivone Lara began to emerge – the second which is, in Kelly’s view, the main symbol of this context.

“She was the first woman to participate in the wing of composers of a samba school, Império Serrano, in Rio de Janeiro at the end of 1960. Her importance goes beyond the ‘locals of samba’, and she attains respect as a composer and instrumentalist in the so-called MPB (Brazilian Popular Music).”

The role of interpreters for the dissemination and popularization of the samba, especially Clara Nunes – light-skinned, but of black ancestry – Alcione, Leci Brandão and Beth Carvalho, who sponsored many sambistas (samba musicians), was also essential for Brazilian musical culture.

Current scenario of samba for women

Samba remains today a musical genre in which there is a predominance of men, as much within the industry, as in areas where it is popularly played.

“The opening of the samba to the participation of women, especially black women, remains difficult and, although there are always prominent names like Mariene de Castro, Fabiana Cozza and Teresa Cristina, we still have very few,” laments Kelly.

As a way of continuing resistance – and existing – in this scenario, some independent sambistas have organized themselves into groups and rodas de samba (samba circles) for women only. The São Paulo group Sambadas Sao Paulo is one example.

“It’s not necessary to know everything about samba to know that the shadow of its friendliness hides many conflicts. Prejudice of gender is one of them. Even starring in the history of this popular event, many singers, songwriters, samba school leaders etc. were, and are silent,” said Carolina Nascimento, songwriter and guitarist of the group.

Carol, who lives in Jardim Icaraí in São Paulo, in the Grajaú region, is 25 years old and says that the Sambadas began to organize themselves in March 2015 and since then the eight women who make up the group meet weekly to talk, rehearse and play samba. “We still have no fixed place of presentation, the events and related information are posted on our Facebook page,” she says.

https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2016/03/05/samba-roots-what-was-the-historical-significance-of-black-women-in-samba/

A very good book...one of the best i have read.

I have also listened to its audio version.

When did Mr Nnamdi Kanu became a 'Mazi'?

This Oga had 5 years plus to di anything worthwhile in this country, rather he squandered the peoples mandate by trampling on our collective resources him & his fellow yam eaters.

New Zealand's African minorities - many welcomed here as refugees - claim the police are targeting them unfairly and sometimes in a racist manner.

Young Africans have told AUT researcher Dr Camille Nakhid that police have stopped them on the streets or in cars for no apparent reason except their colour, beaten them, called them "n*****s", told them to "go back to your country" and even told them to go back to Mt Roskill when they visited the North Shore.

One young man said: "If they see you as a black man with a white woman in the car ... they pull the girls aside and ask, 'Are you OK?'"

Dr Nakhid said this treatment cannot continue. She will present the report to an African youth forum at the Wesley Community Centre in Mt Roskill at 3pm tomorrow. Police say while they cannot respond to single incidents without more details, they take cultural concerns very seriously.

Only 13,464 people of African ethnicity were counted in the 2013 Census, just 0.3 per cent of New Zealanders. Sub-groups included 1617 Somalis, 1245 Ethiopians and 243 Eritreans, who all came here mainly as refugees from civil wars, many without husbands or fathers.

Dr Nakhid posted two questionnaires on Survey Monkey last April and advertised them to young Africans through Facebook and other media. The main survey drew 84 respondents, of whom 31 per cent had been stopped by police and 3.6 per cent had been arrested.

She also interviewed 31 young Auckland Africans, including 25 from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

They told her their "skin colour and age made them a very obvious and visible target of racism for the police", but it depended on their clothing.

A 28-year-old Somali commerce graduate told her: "If I'm wearing a hoodie I get pulled over, if I am wearing a hat I will be pulled over, and I don't get a breathalyser if I am wearing my suit from work."

A 31-year-old Kenyan graduate whose car broke down on the harbour bridge at 2am said the police officer responded: "Ooh, like, 'So he came with the n*****s,' and that kind of stuff."

A 29-year-old Somali builder, Vegita, said a police officer stopped him when he was driving home at night and said: "What are you doing in the area, criminal?"

"I have a history with the police," Vegita said. But he said that did not justify being called "criminal".

Aisha-Eli Boyce, who is half African, backed his account and said she had been with Vegita when he had been pulled over by police.

The group plans to educate young Africans on their legal rights.

Police 'value diversity'

Young Africans are not offending at a higher rate than the national average, police say.

A spokeswoman said only 12 out of 5000 (0.2 per cent) of the police database of youths aged 14 to 16 identified as African, less than their 0.3 per cent share of the national population aged 15 to 29.

She said police "take the concerns of all sectors of our community very seriously", but could not comment on individual incidents without further details.

"Valuing diversity is now one of the core values of the NZ Police and we have a responsibility to encourage and grow the cultural competencies of our staff and actively recruit from all communities," she said.

The police website lists 13 Maori, Pacific and ethnic liaison officers across the three Auckland police districts and eight in the rest of the country. Only one, in Christchurch, is listed as speaking an African language (Shona), but the spokeswoman said one African officer was also working in Auckland.

Former Race Relations Conciliator Gregory Fortuin said the police had responded positively since he first raised concerns about unfair treatment of minority groups in 2001. "But if there are individual cases, it should not be tolerated in 2016," he said.

African Kiwis

Ethnicity

'African': 6819
Afro-American/West Indian: 1746
Somali: 1617
Ethiopian: 1245
Nigerian: 294
Eritrean: 243
Kenyan: 219
Ghanaian: 210
Others: 1071
Total African: 13,464

Location

Auckland: 6303 (47%)
Wellington: 2208 (16%)
Waikato: 1560 (12%)
Canterbury: 1383 (10%)

Age

Under 15: 4380 (33%)
15-29: 3492 (26%)
30-64: 5328 (40%)
65+: 261 (2%)

Median age (African): 24.3
Median age (NZ European): 40.8

Source: 2013 Census

- NZ Herald

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11599618

Hardwork and dedication always pays inthe long run.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/03/07/former-nigerian-chief-defense-alex-badeh-sent-kuje-prison-corruption


He was in court with PDP Olisa Metuh

Baba na one dance master...

What a difference in a year...change from being a chief of defence staff to a prison mate...well no condition si permanent.

I just hope all this trials leads to lengthy prison terms if they are convicted.

Evidence of the bribed money or else...

This will serve has a lesson to any potential 'yam eater' that things are not done the way they use to be...

Jephthah's daughter wasn't literally burnt as an offering, as Yahweh has commanded and forbidden that there should be no human sacrifice of any kind. God would not have accepted such sacrifices.

What happened was that, Jephthah's linage was cut short permanently - meaning he didn't have grandchildren because his daughter maintained a life of celibacy by knowing no man and instead serving in the tabernacle all the remainning days of her life.

Just to put into perspective, the story is a remainder that we should not make foolish promises or vows.