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Kasiem2:
I've always known that this loafer of a governor that peter obi gave us in anambra is one kind of a person who thinks in that primitive way that politics isn't played with principles. His treacherous trait deceives him to the level of forgetting the fact that he who bites the finger that fed him will one day go starving.

Vividly, I could remember some time last year when ansu students embarked on a protest due to high school fees. The best response the man could give to us was that the protest was being sponsored by peter obi.

Again, when he was owing lecturers that last year instead of finding possible ways to settle off his debt, the man passed the blame to peter obi.

Okay, we all saw how the betrayer of a man was dancing all along with jonathan Goodluck during those days. Now guess what?

In the latest release this man made about the boko haram prisoners saga, the two major people this man blamed for the whole thing are Goodluck Jonathan and Peter Obi. This shows the man has left them for the person in power.

The loafer has successfully built a character of not being too trustworthy, he only follows you when things are working fine for you then whenever it turns out rough,he shows you the back instead of courage. Solidarity is a word that is yet to show in his dictionary .


The man just recently came to commission the road in my school, a major road done by obi a year before obiano emerged as governor. This what the media-friendly governor has been going around doing just to project his sycophancy.


The man has failed to pick any lesson in this apc saga. He has refused to learn that karma has a way of playing a role in politics. He thinks that with this way he is just being smart enough without knowing that one day his cards will be used against him. Any person that want to deal with him will start being careful and suspicious of him

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[quote author=BuddahMonk post=35377530][/quote]You dey mind those Oluwale boys

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave this commencement speech at Wellesley College
Hello class of 2015.
Congratulations! And thank you for that wonderful welcome. And thank you President Bottomly for that wonderful introduction.
I have admired Wellesley—its mission, its story, its successes—for a long time and I thank you very much for inviting me.
You are ridiculously lucky to be graduating from this bastion of excellence and on these beautiful acres.
And if the goddesses and gods of the universe do the right thing, then you will also very soon be the proud alumnae of the college that produced America’s first female president! Go Hillary!
I’m truly, truly happy to be here today, so happy, in fact, that when I found out your class color was yellow, I decided I would wear yellow eye shadow. But on second thoughts, I realized that as much as I admire Wellesley, even yellow eye-shadow was a bit too much of a gesture. So I dug out this yellow—yellowish—headwrap instead.

Speaking of eye shadow, I wasn’t very interested in makeup until I was in my twenties, which is when I began to wear makeup. Because of a man. A loud, unpleasant man. He was one of the guests at a friend’s dinner party. I was also a guest. I was about 23, but people often told me I looked 12. The conversation at dinner was about traditional Igbo culture, about the custom that allows only men to break the kola nut, and the kola nut is a deeply symbolic part of Igbo cosmology.

I argued that it would be better if that honor were based on achievement rather than gender, and he looked at me and said, dismissively, “You don’t know what you are talking about, you’re a small girl.”
I wanted him to disagree with the substance of my argument, but by looking at me, young and female, it was easy for him to dismiss what I said. So I decided to try to look older.

So I thought lipstick might help. And eyeliner.

And I am grateful to that man because I have since come to love makeup, and its wonderful possibilities for temporary transformation.

So, I have not told you this anecdote as a way to illustrate my discovery of gender injustice. If anything, it’s really just an ode to makeup.

It’s really just to say that this, your graduation, is a good time to buy some lipsticks—if makeup is your sort of thing—because a good shade of lipstick can always put you in a slightly better mood on dark days.

It’s not about my discovering gender injustice because of course I had discovered years before then. From childhood. From watching the world.

I already knew that the world does not extend to women the many small courtesies that it extends to men.

I also knew that victimhood is not a virtue. That being discriminated against does not make you somehow morally better.

And I knew that men were not inherently bad or evil. They were merely privileged. And I knew that privilege blinds because it is the nature of privilege to blind.

I knew from this personal experience, from the class privilege I had of growing up in an educated family, that it sometimes blinded me, that I was not always as alert to the nuances of people who were different from me.

And you, because you now have your beautiful Wellesley degree, have become privileged, no matter what your background. That degree, and the experience of being here, is a privilege. Don’t let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

*

I bring greetings to you from my mother. She’s a big admirer of Wellesley, and she wishes she could be here. She called me yesterday to ask how the speech-writing was going and to tell me to remember to use a lot of lotion on my legs today so they would not look ashy.

My mother is 73 and she retired as the first female registrar of the University of Nigeria—which was quite a big deal at the time.

My mother likes to tell a story of the first university meeting she chaired. It was in a large conference room, and at the head of the table was a sign that said CHAIRMAN. My mother was about to get seated there when a clerk came over and made to remove the sign. All the past meetings had of course been chaired by men, and somebody had forgotten to replace the CHAIRMAN with a new sign that said CHAIRPERSON. The clerk apologized and told her he would find the new sign, since she was not a chairman.

My mother said no. Actually, she said, she WAS a chairman. She wanted the sign left exactly where it was. The meeting was about to begin. She didn’t want anybody to think that what she was doing in that meeting at that time on that day was in any way different from what a CHAIRMAN would have done.

I always liked this story, and admired what I thought of as my mother’s fiercely feminist choice. I once told the story to a friend, a card carrying feminist, and I expected her to say bravo to my mother, but she was troubled by it.

“Why would your mother want to be called a chairman, as though she needed the MAN part to validate her?” my friend asked.

In some ways, I saw my friend’s point.

Because if there were a Standard Handbook published annually by the Secret Society of Certified Feminists, then that handbook would certainly say that a woman should not be called, nor want to be called, a CHAIRMAN.

But gender is always about context and circumstance.

If there is a lesson in this anecdote, apart from just telling you a story about my mother to make her happy that I spoke about her at Wellesley, then it is this: Your standardized ideologies will not always fit your life. Because life is messy.

*

When I was growing up in Nigeria I was expected, as every student who did well was expected, to become a doctor. Deep down I knew that what I really wanted to do was to write stories. But I did what I was supposed to do and I went into medical school.

I told myself that I would tough it out and become a psychiatrist and that way I could use my patients’ stories for my fiction.

But after one year of medical school I fled. I realized I would be a very unhappy doctor and I really did not want to be responsible for the inadvertent death of my patients. Leaving medical school was a very unusual decision, especially in Nigeria where it is very difficult to get into medical school.

Later, people told me that it had been very courageous of me, but I did not feel courageous at all.

What I felt then was not courage but a desire to make an effort. To try. I could either stay and study something that was not right for me. Or I could try and do something different. I decided to try. I took the American exams and got a scholarship to come to the US where I could study something else that was NOT related to medicine. Now it might not have worked out. I might not have been given an American scholarship.

My writing might not have ended up being successful. But the point is that I tried.

We can not always bend the world into the shapes we want but we can try, we can make a concerted and real and true effort. And you are privileged that, because of your education here, you have already been given many of the tools that you will need to try. Always just try. Because you never know.

And so as you graduate, as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today, I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in.

Minister to the world in a way that can change it. Minister radically in a real, active, practical, get your hands dirty way.

Wellesley will open doors for you. Walk through those doors and make your strides long and firm and sure.

Write television shows in which female strength is not depicted as remarkable but merely normal.

Teach your students to see that vulnerability is a HUMAN rather than a FEMALE trait.

Commission magazine articles that teach men HOW TO KEEP A WOMAN HAPPY. Because there are already too many articles that tell women how to keep a man happy. And in media interviews make sure fathers are asked how they balance family and work. In this age of ‘parenting as guilt,’ please spread the guilt equally. Make fathers feel as bad as mothers. Make fathers share in the glory of guilt.

Campaign and agitate for paid paternity leave everywhere in America.

Hire more women where there are few. But remember that a woman you hire doesn’t have to be exceptionally good. Like a majority of the men who get hired, she just needs to be good enough.

Recently a feminist organization kindly nominated me for an important prize in a country that will remain unnamed. I was very pleased. I’ve been fortunate to have received a few prizes so far and I quite like them especially when they come with shiny presents. To get this prize, I was required to talk about how important a particular European feminist woman writer had been to me. Now the truth was that I had never managed to finish this feminist writer’s book. It did not speak to me. It would have been a lie to claim that she had any major influence on my thinking. The truth is that I learned so much more about feminism from watching the women traders in the market in Nsukka where I grew up, than from reading any seminal feminist text. I could have said that this woman was important to me, and I could have talked the talk, and I could have been given the prize and a shiny present.

But I didn’t.

Because I had begun to ask myself what it really means to wear this FEMINIST label so publicly.

Just as I asked myself after excerpts of my feminism speech were used in a song by a talented musician whom I think some of you might know. I thought it was a very good thing that the word ‘feminist’ would be introduced to a new generation.

But I was startled by how many people, many of whom were academics, saw something troubling, even menacing, in this.

It was as though feminism was supposed to be an elite little cult, with esoteric rites of membership.

But it shouldn’t. Feminism should be an inclusive party. Feminism should be a party full of different feminisms.

And so, class of 2015, please go out there and make Feminism a big raucous inclusive party.

The past three weeks have been the most emotionally difficult of my life. My father is 83 years old, a retired professor of statistics, a lovely kind man. I am an absolute Daddy’s girl. Three weeks ago, he was kidnapped near his home in Nigeria. And for a number of days, my family and I went through the kind of emotional pain that I have never known in my life. We were talking to threatening strangers on the phone, begging and negotiating for my father’s safety and we were not always sure if my father was alive. He was released after we paid a ransom. He is well, in fairly good shape and in his usual lovely way, is very keen to reassure us all that he is fine.

I am still not sleeping well, I still wake up many times at night, in panic, worried that something else has gone wrong, I still cannot look at my father without fighting tears, without feeling this profound relief and gratitude that he is safe, but also rage that he had to undergo such an indignity to his body and to his spirit.

And the experience has made me re-think many things, what truly matters, and what doesn’t. What I value, and what I don’t.

And as you graduate today, I urge you to think about that a little more. Think about what really matters to you. Think about what you WANT to really matter to you.

I read about your rather lovely tradition of referring to older students as “big sisters” and younger ones as “little sisters.” And I read about the rather strange thing about being thrown into the pond—and I didn’t really get that—but I would very much like to be your honorary big sister today.

Which means that I would like to give you bits of advice as your big sister:

All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people.

Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don’t do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.

I am lucky that my writing has given me a platform that I choose to use to talk about things that I care about, and

I have said a few things that have not been so popular with a number of people. I have been told to shut up about certain things – such as my position on the equal rights of gay people on the continent of Africa, such as my deeply held belief that men and women are completely equal. I don’t speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time on earth is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, each moment we pretend to be what we are not, each moment we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody wants us to say, then we are wasting our time on earth.

I don’t mean to sound precious but please don’t waste your time on earth, but there is one exception. The only acceptable way of wasting your time on earth is online shopping.

Okay, one last thing about my mother. My mother and I do not agree on many things regarding gender. There are certain things my mother believes a person should do, for the simple reason that said person ‘is a woman.’ Such as nod occasionally and smile even when smiling is the last thing one wants to do. Such as strategically give in to certain arguments, especially when arguing with a non-female. Such as get married and have children. I can think of fairly good reasons for doing any of these. But ‘because you are a woman’ is not one of them. And so, Class of 2015, never ever accept ‘Because You Are A Woman’ as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

And, finally I would like to end with a final note on the most important thing in the world: love.

Now girls are often raised to see love only as giving. Women are praised for their love when that love is an act of giving. But to love is to give AND to take.

Please love by giving and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we females are so often socialized to silence.

Don’t silence that voice. Dare to take.

Congratulations.
http://time.com/3921492/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-graduation-commencement-wellesley/

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Grads: Make Feminism an Inclusive Party
http://time.com/3921492/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-graduation-commencement-wellesley/

Cat with Nine lives
Chief Cletus Ibeto

Anambra state is open for business

Anambra state is open for business, bring your investment home.

Grand Malt, Hero lager win Monde’s gold award
Grand Malt has emerged the winner of the prestigious international Monde Gold Award for taste and quality. The malt brand, which is brewed by Pabod Breweries Limited, a subsidiary of SABMiller Plc in Nigeria, has now bagged this award for the second successive year. This was made known at the Monde awards ceremony held in Brussels, Belgium recently.

Similarly, Hero Lager, a beer brand from the stable of Intafact Beverages Limited, another subsidiary of SABMiller Plc in Nigeria, with strong dominance in South East Nigeria also received gold award for taste and quality from the international body.

Commenting on the award, Head Brewer of the SABMiller Group in Nigeria, Mr. Ray De Power, said, “The company’s adherence to reliable quality assurance processes and uncompromising commitment to excellence earned the two brands this deserving recognition.”

He said Grand Malt is a premium malt drink poised to re-define nourishment and vitality. “We use the best quality ingredients and world class processes to ensure that consumers are consistently offered the highest quality product every time,” he said.

The Marketing Director of SABMiller in Nigeria, Mr. Chris Wulff-Caesar said the award reflects the dedication and commitment of the organization in ensuring that the brand’s promise of consistently delivering a rich satisfying taste experience is always on a foundation of quality, saying that the company will ensure this is never compromised.

“The Monde Gold Award truly reinforces the fact that Grand Malt is brewed to international quality standard, which ensures that we deliver a creamy and nourishing malt drink to our consumers time after time,” assuring that the company will not relent on its commitment to ensure that its consumers are satisfied with the various SABMiller brands.

asha80:
I dont know about resolving the issue but I know an ebonyi guy with the moniker cyberwolf said that same thing about Ibeto sponsoring umahi just before the elections here on nairaland...your guess is as good as mine why Ibeto would do that

To protect his business, expatrirates are working round the clock to resuscitate the factory

BuddahMonk:
The host community is behind Ibeto 100%, its their politicians, the governor and the assembly members in Abujja, they ganged up and started frustrating every move.

Nkalagu people are solidly behind Ibeto, let me get the link.

dailyindependentnig.com/2014/12/elechi-fumes-ibeto-begins-work-nigercem/

The issues has been resolved by Igbo elders and top politicians, Ibeto sponsored Engr Dave governorship election and some national assembly members from Ebonyi state, I got the news from top politician from southeast

Ernest Azudialo

investnow2013:
Chief Patrick Ifeanyi Uba should be encouraged to build Five Star Hotels,Refinery,Tank Farms for storage of petrol & Highrise Office complexes in Onitsha & Awka for Headquaters of Many Anambra's Companies!.... These Highrise buildings should be not less than 7 story high!.... This guy is an embodiment of Anambra\Igbomen's & women determination to succeed inspite many obstacles!.Obiano/ Anambra State Investment company should encourage him to invest more in Anambra-State than other places!.Although he is building a Hotel & Stadium at Nnewi as I speak, but it is still a far cry to what he can do !.Uba should consider building Independent Power Plant at Nnewi for many Industries in Nnewi, Okija, Oba, Ozubulu & Ihiala!. Ulasi River Okija or One of the River Niger water channels & tributaries at Atani Ogbaru Lga of Anambra-State can be very useful in this regard!They can be damed!.He can partner with Chief Emeka Offor & many others. This is The Time For The EASTERN TIGER TO ROAR!!!!......Anambra Nwere Dike nwe Dimkpa!. Udo nuo!!!

Anambra great sons and daughters should come home and invest, the should emulate Coscharis, Stella Oduah, Clem Nwankwo, Innoson etc.
This company is own by Ernest Azudialo, The owner of century power and Smile network

OreMI22:
as usual, great pics Frank!.

If that is the MCC area of the expressway, why did they allow that canopy to be so close to the road?

ANSTMA will do their work once the road is commission

MCC last month

jamesbawa:
according to Wikipedia;
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1 Lagos State US$91,000 [3]
2 Rivers State US$21,073
3 Delta State US$16,749
4 Oyo State US$16,121
5 Imo State US$14,212
6 Kano State US$12,393
7 Edo State US$11,888
8 Akwa Ibom State US$11,179
9 Ogun State US$10,470
10 Kaduna State US$10,334
11 Cross River State US$9,292
12 Abia State US$8,687
13 Ondo State US$8,414
14 Osun State US$7,280
15 Benue State US$6,864
16 Anambra State US$6,764
17 Katsina State US$6,022
18 Niger State US$6,002
19 Borno State US$5,175
20 Plateau State US$5,154
21 Sokoto State US$4,818
22 Bauchi State US$4,713
23 Kogi State US$4,642
24 Adamawa State US$4,582
25 Enugu State US$4,396
26 Bayelsa State US$4,337
27 Zamfara State US$4,123
28 Kwara State US$3,841
29 Taraba State US$3,397
30 Kebbi State US$3,290
31 Nassarawa State US$3,022
32 Jigawa State US$2,988
33 Ekiti State US$2,848
34 Ebonyi State US$2,732
35 Gombe State US$2,501
36 Yobe State US$2,011

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We need 2014 statistics from NBS not Wikipedia

finniblinks:
Natural Resources
Ebonyi is primarily an agricultural region. It is a leading producer of rice, yam, potatoes, maize, beans, and cassava in Nigeria. Rice and yams are predominantly cultivated in Edda, a region within the state.Ebonyi has several solid mineral resources, including lead, crude oil, and natural gas, but few large-scale commercial mines. The state government has, however, given several incentives to investors in the agro-allied sector to encourage production.
Ebonyi is called "the salt of the nation" for its huge salt deposit at the Okposi and Uburu Salt Lakes.

Ebonyi rice now available in shopping malls

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jamesokikiola:
OK now... since no one backed his/her claim with facts and figures but on sentiment and false claim... a little googling, this is what I got:
State PPP GDP (2010 in millions of USD)
1 Lagos State US$91,000[3]
2 Rivers State US$21,073
3 Delta State US$16,749
4 Oyo State US$16,121
5 Imo State US$14,212
6 Kano State US$12,393
7 Edo State US$11,888
8 Akwa Ibom US$11,179
9 Ogun State US$10,470
10 Kaduna State US$10,334
11 Cross River US$9,292
12 Abia State US$8,687
13 Ondo State US$8,414
14 Osun State US$7,280
15 Benue State US$6,864
16 Anambra State US$6,764
17 Katsina State US$6,022
18 Niger State US$6,002
19 Borno State US$5,175
20 Plateau State US$5,154
21 Sokoto State US$4,818
22 Bauchi State US$4,713
23 Kogi State US$4,642
24 Adamawa State US$4,582
25 Enugu State US$4,396
26 Bayelsa State US$4,337
27 Zamfara State US$4,123
28 Kwara State US$3,841
29 Taraba State US$3,397
30 Kebbi State US$3,290
31 Nassarawa State US$3,022
32 Jigawa State US$2,988
33 Ekiti State US$2,848
34 Ebonyi State US$2,732
35 Gombe State US$2,501
36 Yobe State US$2,011

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Rubbish! We need credible source from NBS, not the rubbish your guys cook in Aregbe's bedroom

investnow2013:
Wonderful!..... I wish our governor & our people act quick & stop foot dragging!. We can be what we want to be even in this zoo!.Oh! is somebody seeing what I am seeing & Thinking what I am thinking!.Onitsha can have University, Great Film Industry, Bank Headquaters, High Class Housing Estate, Dualized Roads, Media Headquaters, Motor Assembly companies, River-Side Five Star Hotels & Shopping Malls, Skyscrapper for office Accomodations etc!...... A Complete City!.... A Financial Hub!... & Economic Tiger just East of The Niger!..Ndibe anyi ekene mu unuoooo!!!!!!

They expanded the hotel, the pics I took last month I went there
1.Onitsha Hotel
2.Onitsha shopping mall

investnow2013:
The Coming of Oba International Market & The New Business District in Oba Idemili-South Lga of Anambra State!

Weldon bro

WIZGUY69:
look at this mentally deranged fellow.

you better don't start what you can't finish.


www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/feature/12679-abakaliki-the-unforgettable-story-of-a-stereotyped-city

see your people life.

ewu

Read what is happening in your home land ode!
[b]Emerging trend of social almajiri in Yorubaland
By Hakeem Jamiu

There is a social malaise which is gradually creeping into the lexicon of Yorubaland and this is the ugly spectre of hungry children begging for food and alms at social events. Older women are equally not left out in this ugly but strange practice in Yorubaland. It is strange in Yorubaland because the concept of almajiri which simply means street urchin is common in the Northern part of the country. Yorubas use to refer derisively to anybody soliciting for arms in Yorubaland in the olden days as almajiri. The almajiri of the North are usually children between the age bracket of 7 and 20 in most cases. Almajiris are so desperate for food that any unsuspecting visitor to the Northern part of the country who goes to a restaurant to eat but mistakenly left his food to wash his hands is likely to lose such to waiting almajiris before he comes back for the food.


I first noticed this ugly trend at a ceremony I attended a few months ago at Ayetoro Ekiti. Elderly and middle aged able bodied women from Kwara, Osun and Oyo states invaded the burial ceremony uninvited and were embarrassing guests who refused to give them money. Also noticeable were children with their begging bowls who thronged the venue of the ceremony soliciting for left over food and alms. The children were a pitiable sight. Poverty was clearly written on their faces. I have attended many social functions after that and the same trend was noticeable. But I became worried a few days ago, when I attended the burial ceremony of a friend's father in Ilesha , Osun State . They came in various groups and employ different methods in soliciting for alms. There were the elderly women who were busy harassing guests in the name of praise singing and would not leave until you part with money, there were the men with their public address system which they use in praise singing but which is disturbance and yet, there were Yoruba children in the mould of almajiris with their begging bowls scrambling for left-over and at the same time soliciting for alms.


Fellow guests on my table at the event who were also journalists expressed their concern in unison about the growing trend of almajiri of various categories in Yorubaland. They all agreed that it has become a social problem. We started discussing and realised that the culture of begging in the mould of almajiris is alien to Yoruba culture. In those days before the advent of the British, the Yorubas are a proud people known for their hard work and industry. They practiced hoe agriculture and were well known as traders and for their crafts. Yoruba artists have produced masterpieces of woodcarving and bronze casting, some of which date from as early as the 13th century. Many of Nigeria 's best-known artists and writers are Yoruba. Other occupation of the Yorubas at that time were drumming and masquerading which would now be called showbiz. They engage in all the foregoing occupation but a Yoruba man or woman (able bodied) would not beg for alms as it is considered shameful and something akin to a curse. The Yorubas cherish their oriki (folklore) which is a poetic version of eulogizing the exploits of their progenitors which is an incentive for them to excel and even surpass their progenitors. The Yorubas have harsh words for lazy people. Such people are objects of ridicule and butt of jokes in the society. With this background, it is understandable why we became worried with the array of beggars at the Ilesha ceremony.


After leaving the party, I reflected on the scenario of the almajiris in Ilesha and I was able to draw a relationship between Political almajiris and social almajiris. I discovered that social almajiri had its root in the advent of the politics of do -or-die introduced into the political lexicon of Yorubaland by apostles of mainstream politics especially ex-President Obasanjo. The grand Patron of political almajiris who recently passed away was Chief Lamidi Adedibu. Many have argued that his death has led to the proliferation of almajiris in Yorubaland. This is because those he hitherto dole handouts to must look for other means of survival since he is no more. These political almajiris are ready to exchange their mothers for few coins. A new political class of men without integrity and anything goes was created and they became political almajiris who survive on crumbs from their masters. They would rig, kill, maim and do all sort of things to acquire political power. With the ascension of these men in power, good governance became a thing of the past. Our collective patrimony was squandered by these political almajiris. Nigeria has never been so blessed with petro dollar with oil selling for $156 dollars per barrel but Nigeria has never been so poor with a chunk of the population living below poverty line. So versions of the political almajiris are the social almajiris that now invade ceremonies in Yorubaland. With these children begging for alms, a ready made market for thuggery and other social vices is assured. The activities of the beggars are not limited to parties. At bus stops in our cities, it is a common sight to see women most of who are still in their mid thirties, who would strap a baby at their backs and approach men with stories of despair to solicit for alms. Many of them would end up in bed with such men. This is another brand of alamajiri and these are Yoruba women. A violent version of almajiri but which is gradually being tackled in Lagos is the 'Area Boys' syndrome. These are Yoruba street urchins who are semi- armed robbers.


The underlying factor in this new trend is failure of the Nigerian State on one part and the laziness on the part of these women. Most of them don't want to work, In those days, when everybody's occupation was farming you dare not beg. You must find something to do. But these days, our women and children are too lazy. It is either they steal or beg. In most cases a mother and child become almajiris at social events. So the question now is can a Yoruba man now refer derisively to a Hausa beggar as almajiri when we have many of them now in Yorubaland? The answer is no! This trend must be arrested before it goes out of hand. The almajiris in the North these days engage in novel forms of drug abuse like sniffing of gutter water to get intoxicated, sniffing of adhesives and other drugs so that they are ever ready to unleash terror on the rest of the society whenever they are called upon to do so by the political wing of almajiris. I strongly recommend that guests at public functions must stop encouraging almajiris by giving them money.


But can government which itself owns the political wing of almajiris arrest this trend? Time will tell.

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/jul/9/221.html[/b]

WIZGUY69:
goat!

the world knows that the both state are better than the five cursed erosion ravaged tiny psycho states in the south eastern part of Nigeria where Ojuku' of cursed memory is from.

Imbeciile!

Those two states are poor

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WIZGUY69:
[size=48]Ebonyi is the poorest state in Nigeria. sometimes. the state looks like its not part of Nigeria. the only tarred road in that salt cave is the road leading to Govt house. Abakiliki. nonsense state may amadioha strike any flat head beast that mention any south west state.[/size]

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Ekiti and Osun

MDG survey
[b]Antenatal Care Coverage.
Antenatal Care avails much in preventing pregnancy complications, when it is
sought early and continued through to delivery. Early antenatal care reveals
impending dangers and makes referrals timely. It is a direct approach to reducing
maternal mortality.
In 2008, only 8.2% of the pregnant women attended antenatal for one visit while
44.8% attended for at least 4 visits. In 2012 66.3% of them attended for at least one
visit and 57.8% for at least four visits. The record in 2014 was that about 25% of the
women that were pregnant never attended antenatal visits. At the same time, 68.9%
attended at least once while 60.6% attended for four times and over.
The number of visits for antenatal was encouraging in the urban where 75.9% of
pregnant women had at least four visits. The rural rears were no exception as 51.6%
of the pregnant women visited over four times. With regard to the zones, South East
(88.3%) had the highest number of visits. South West (78%), South South (64.1) and
North Central (65. had encouraging number of antenatal visits. But very few
pregnant women in North West (38.1%) and North East (32.9%) attended antenatal
up to four times.[/b]

More from MDG survey
Literacy rate of 15 – 24 years, women definition.
Sectorally, the survey showed that there were more literate youth women (85.3%)
in the urban as against the 57.8% recorded in the rural areas. In the zones the
literate youth women in the South East (93.5%) were much higher than the rest of
the zones. North East (33.0%) and North West (35%) had the lowest percentage of
literate youth women in 2014.

oduastates:
Or you can say ,
SE states lack social services which means fewer teachers , nurses , doctors , sanitation workers ,TV stations to pay .
We flock to other states to piggyback on their social services

more information from nbs, MDG survey 2014

Primary School Net Attendance Ratio By State
At the national level, the net attendance ratio was 61% in 2008 and it increased to
71% in 2012. In 2014, there was a shortfall of 2.3% and the net attendance for 2014
thus dropped to 68.7%. When classified by sectors, net attendance in the urban
(84.3%) was much higher than in the rural areas (62.2%). Across the geopolitical
zones, it was very encouraging in the South East (90.5%), South South (88.1%),
South West (87%) and North Central (80.2%). But in the North West (50.5%) and
particularly North East (42.5%) net attendance was not impressive.

oduastates:
Or you can say ,
SE states lack social services which means fewer teachers , nurses , doctors , sanitation workers ,TV stations to pay .
We flock to other states to piggyback on their social services

Evidence we have shows that Southeast states are leading in MDG reports

Proportion of Births attended by skilled health care attendants.

[b]Assistance during child birth has a lot of influence on the birth outcome. It also
determines the health and life of both the mother and child after delivery. The
assistance of highly skilled birth personnel is imperative to guarantee successful
delivery and life after such delivery.
Fig… shows the national trend of the proportion of births attended by skilled
attendants. The proportion increased in 2008 (38.9%) from 36.3% recorded in
2004 while 53.6% was recorded in 2012. The situation improved further in 2014
(58.6%). A zonal disaggregation of this trend shows that of the children born within
the period of reference, South East (89.1%) had the highest record of delivery
assisted by skilled birth attendant. Eighty three percent was recorded in South West.
North Central and South South zones respectively had a record of 67.2% and 64.4%.
The least were in North East (30.8%) and North West (24.8%).
Sectorally, the urban areas with 79.2 had higher proportion of deliveries assisted by
trained personnel’s while the rural areas had 46.6%.[/b]

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Yeebhoe dunce. Ebonyi is dead. They die of cholera daily cos they drink and poo from same water. Spits

Ebonyi is primarily an agricultural region. It is a leading producer of rice, yam, potatoes, maize, beans, and cassava in Nigeria, Rice and yams are predominantly cultivated in Edda, a region within the state, Ebonyi has several solid mineral resources, Ebonyi is called "the salt of the nation" for its huge salt deposit at the Okposi and Uburu Salt Lakes.

centje:
FKO81, tell me you photoshoped those houses
That's lovely houses, just the layout needs good finishing.


Modified.

Bro they are real, I took the pics yesterday.

Independent layout Enugu

I enjoyed Ebonyi rice yesterday, GEJ really performed well in Agriculture sector.