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jide-Ife:
[color=#006600][/color]Femi, Don't be confused. Ngige could have simply conviced fashola to apologise publicly to Ndi Igbo. Secondly, Ngige could have publicly condemned Fashola's actions and later form a bond with him as people of same party. With that, he could win the hearts of the people (thereby making them feel he is all out for the Anambrarians even to the detriment of his party). If Ngige did that, even if he formed his own party(though time is too short for him to form a party), he will still have good vote from the people

aryzgreat: Well, i took my time to read every single comment on this thread after i came back from mass. It gives me joy that my people have woken up, the trickish n hypocritic nature of yorubas will be their greatest undoing. Thought they would have learn from their mini-god awolawo but they seem to be tutored on the act of hypocritism at such a young age.

We Anambrarians don't want Ngige to rule us! QED. We have better alternatives in the persons of Prof Soludo, Prof Akunyili. To me Ubah is even better than Ngige. I use to admire him but have come to realise the "coma n see america wonder" he put up when he had issue with eselu uba was just to win d heart on ndi Anambra having been left in oblivion. A person in the mold of Ngige cud not sponsor a single bill in the senate, but he wanna rule us. Mbanu!

The Yoruba rascals trying to support Ngige r only doping so bc of his party APC, they want Tinubu to annex Anambra wealth but Ojukwu's spirit will strike them down for even daring to get at Anambra.

APC is a persona non grata party in the east, take ur campaign elsewhere, next time we make sure we condemn ur eyes with stone so u will have a mark to rmbr we are not f00ls. Ngige go and contest in Lagos.

Kevsman: House, i just heard on the radio that the Enugu state Government has banned the use of keke napep in the state, after banning motorcycle (okada) last year,

please is this true?

boron10: After the killing of all foreigners in S.A, they will turn around and start killing themselves. What goes around would surely come around.

Nastyhatty: she is pretty

At just 21 years old, Yityish Aynaw has gone on a remarkable life journey from a little girl playing barefoot in an Ethiopian village to an Israeli beauty queen who's ready to shine on the world stage.

Last February, the stunning 21-year-old grabbed international attention after becoming the first woman of African descent to be crowned Miss Israel at the country's beauty pageant.

"To be first, you have all the attention focused on you and I have to represent my whole ethnic group because through me they see the models," says Aynaw, who will represent Israel at the next Miss Universe contest. "Through me they see and discover our whole ethnic group."

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Aynaw was born in Chahawit, a small village in northern Ethiopia, near the city of Gondar. Her father died when she was young and when she was just 12 years old she lost her mother to a painful illness. Heartbroken, she arrived in Israel with her brother to live with their Ethiopian Jewish grandparents.

"The journey was, I think, what saved me," she says. "Because I was deeply hurt and I wanted to escape from Ethiopia and forget everything that had happened and get on with it," she adds. "I wanted to break away from everything and go on."

While still a child, Aynaw was suddenly faced with a new language, a new culture and all the rest of challenges that come with starting a new life in a foreign country.

Like the estimated 125,000 Ethiopian Jews who have gone in waves over the years to Israel, Aynaw experienced the same struggle to assimilate into her new environment. But Aynaw threw herself at it, not shying away from all that her adopted country expected of her, including mastering Hebrew and serving in the Israeli army after school.

"It is three of the most significant years in my life," says Aynaw about her time in the military. "There I learned a lot about myself; there I developed," she adds. "I was a girl of 19 and the army gave me structure."

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After finishing her army service, Aynaw started working as a sales clerk in a clothing store. Tall and beautiful, she long had her eye on becoming a model but she never thought about taking part in a pageant. Instead, it was a friend of hers who entered her name into the Miss Israel competition.

"We were always laughing about it," says Aynaw, who also goes by the nickname Titi. "I'd not registered during the time of my studies because I was really busy -- the army is the army, I couldn't. So when I ended she said to me 'you have got no more excuses and I am going to register you.'"
I want to give my kids the experience I never had. That is my great dream.
Yityish Aynaw, Miss Israel

Her win in February changed her life instantly. Within a matter of weeks, her name and image were splashed across newspapers and websites, both in Israel and abroad.

The publicity also caught the attention of one of her heroes: Aynaw was invited to an exclusive state dinner for Barack Obama in honor of his first visit to Israel as U.S. president.

"This was an incredible moment," she says. "He was a figure that I want to emulate. I did a project on him in school and I knew what he had been through and what he had done. He was like a mentor for me, so to meet him and say hello, it was like closing a circle."

Aynaw says she had never expected something like this would happen to her.

"Suddenly I thought about the little girl who had suffered and the little girl whose only dream was to run and play the whole day. The pain I went through; I saw it all," she says.

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As the first ever black Miss Israel, Aynaw is seen by some as a beacon of hope that racial prejudice is beginning to fade away in the country. Aynaw says that she's never been the victim of racism but adds that there have been instances where friends of hers have been treated differently because of the color of their skin.

"I am aware of the feeling, even if it did not happen to me," she says. "I know it [racism] exists in the country and the whole world," adds Aynaw. "It is something that has to be dispelled."

A pained little girl who has turned into a strong young woman, Aynaw is now hoping to carve out a successful career in fashion and also serve as a role model for her community.

And although her future seems set to be filled with glamorous days, Aynaw says ultimately her formula for a happy life rests on one thing.

"I have always dreamed of having a big family, a big house and a lot of kids," she says. "I want to give my kids the experience I never had. That is my great dream."

ujoinme: where is the source of the article?

ujoinme: where is the source of the article?

ujoinme: where is the source of the article?

Rossikk: You do realize ''the history of the Nigerian police'' includes decades of policemen battling armed robbers and sacrificing their lives in their thousands for YOU? As well as patrolling the streets in the dead of night to protect you from men of the underworld at great risk to themselves?

You need to stop stereotyping, and seeing only the bad in others.

cogitoErgo: This seems no fault of the police at all, infact frm info here, police needs encouragement. Even in America, police cars get smashed during chase!
Though I agree that our police need strong, durable and fast vehicle instead of flashy cars

Eko Ile: This looks so so better than many in Yankee gan sef.. Eko o ni baje o.

abouzaid: I'm happy that Gowon have finally accepted to face d icj. I will advise his legal team to prepare to answer this questions. 1) did he approve d bombing of bombing of schools,churches,markets and other civilian targets.2) was he aware that awolowo his vice president ordered a blockade of food and drugs against biafra and went on to say that hunger is a weapon of hunger among other genocidal things which was well reported in both local and foreign news media 3) did he break the aburi accord which led to the secession of biafra. 4) was he not aware that his generals engaged in mass execution of civillians in nigerian occupied areas 5) was he not aware of the widely reported execution of over 8000 igbo young men (civillians) in asaba by general murtala muhammed even though asaba was not part of biafra, their only offense was being igbo.6) was bakassi handed over to cameroon and the aborigines displaced by him in return for implementing food and medicine blockade 7) did he not approve the 20 pounds policy of awolowo knowing fully well that will lead to a lifetime of poverty and intergenerational poverty for a region ravaged by war did he not intentionally fan d embers of division in biafra leading to the abandoned property saga that dispossessed igbos of their houses and properties they have even in the north 9) did general adekunle refuse delivery of food and medicines to the starving biafran minorities (ogoni,anang,ibibio,efik,kalabari etc) he occupied their land 10) was he aware that top government officials repeatedly said that the igbo numbers must be drastically be reduced ? This was well reported in local and foreign media which led biafra to reject a land corridor when offered out of fear being poisoned. Even d usa government d usa government begged him to allow air delivery of foods from neutral countries but he refused. He was also asked to provide inspection officials but he refused. 11) was the said josina ship owned by the red cross and caritas and did the manifest say it's loaded with relief? Or was it privately owned 12) did the clearly marked red cross air plane he shot down at calabar killing all the crew contain any single round of ammunition 13) can he stand before the ICJ and tell the world that red cross and caritas ships and air planes were being used to smuggle weapons into biafra. 14) what was the government war theme songs being played on the northern radio stations 15) was he not aware of the ongoing executions at the markudi bridge. 16) did he not execute all eastern soldiers in the north while ojukwu safely transported northern soldiers and civillians in the east. I have more to add on that list but a sunday morning is not my best time to do so. However, i won't fail to make spirited efforts to contact the ICJ office for his investigation to proceed? I hope biafran and delta igbo legal experts should do so too.

Alxmyr: You questions sparked ignorance.

feminancy: you 4got these