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asha 80: i have always had this belief that our people are the type of human beings that have to be 'guided'.with this 'guidance' they can be unstoppable in any positive path they follow but if left to their foibles can be quite dangerous.

I agree with you. Parental and peer influence is not helping matters too. Some of our parents (not all) have become so obsessed with material things that they persuade their kids to go out there and make money like the son of Mazi Obi. They fail or deliberately refuse to note that Mazi Obi's son might have done illegal stuff to make his money. So some, not ALL, youths are faced with peer and parental pressure to make it or die trying.

asha 80: me thinks most of these kidnappers were former political thugs abandoned by politicians and having guns with them decided to enter this nonsense.

Not true. They are former regular people who have just acquired new skills and trust an Igbo man to take things, good and bad, to the next level. I propose that they are shot without trial. The thing has become unacceptable.

re@lchange:
i shudder at this level of inferiority complex coming from a supposed igbo
na wa

You really should stop sounding as though you are defending Anambra criminals. There are Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani etc criminals. But Anambra criminals take theirs to the next level. Zubby777 is correct that most Igbo criminals, at least those outside Nigeria, are Anambra people. Personally, I love Anambra and have many friends from there. I talk to them about this to their faces that their criminal brothers are the ones ruining Igbo image abroad. Yes, Anambra people, and to a leser extent Orlu people, are the ones ruining Igbo image abroad. Interestingly, Anambra people and Imo people are the most ones who make Igbo thick. Without them, Igboland is faced with the drabness of Igbos from Enugu, Abia and, especially, Ebonyi. I guess you get them humans good and bad.

I am from Igboland and I approve this message

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/sep/6/801.html

, September 6, 2012

US honours Nigerian social entrepreneur

by Agency Reporter



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The United States on Wednesday named a Nigerian social entrepreneur, Grace Ihejiamaizu, as the State Alumni Member for the month of September.

The US State Department said her nomination was in recognition of her dedication to developing Nigeria's next generation of leaders.

A statement by the US Embassy on Wednesday said Ihejiamaizu, an alumnus of the 2010 Study of the United States Institute for Student Leaders initiated an after-school youth development programme called “Raising Young and Productive Entrepreneurs” for youths between the ages of 16 and 24 .

It said the RYPE initiative she launched in 2011 had offered skills trainings, internship placements, volunteer activities, and peer mentoring to over 150 Nigerian youths to become transformational leaders and entrepreneurs.

It said, “In addition to leading various youth initiatives, Ihejiamaizu, also promoted exchange opportunities to other Nigerian youths. She also organised outreach activities at her local American Corner with her fellow alumni.

“She had also facilitated pre-departure orientations for out-going exchange participants, giving them tips on what to expect in the United States and how to be great ambassadors of Nigeria.

“Throughout September, Grace Ihejiamaizu will be recognised on the State Alumni website, ECA's official website for the more than one million Department-sponsored exchange alumni worldwide.”

In 2011, she was named one of Google's 12 Brightest Young Minds in the World and in the same year she received funding through a Michelle Obama Young African Woman Leaders Forum small grant competition in support of her RYPE initiative.

Workers of National Emergency Management Agency during an operation to extinguish a fire caused by pipeline vandalism in Arepo, Ogun State. Inset: Some of the kegs recovered from vandals ... on Friday.
| credits: Odutayo Odusanya and NEMA

Yoruba= Land of thugs and hoodlums.

Vandals chase NSCDC, NEMA officials from Arepo

September 1, 2012 by Segun Olatunji and Comfort Oseghale 41 Comments



Workers of National Emergency Management Agency during an operation to extinguish a fire caused by pipeline vandalism in Arepo, Ogun State. Inset: Some of the kegs recovered from vandals ... on Friday.
| credits: Odutayo Odusanya and NEMA

Suspected armed vandals chased emergency workers and security officials from the scene of a petroleum pipeline fire in Arepo, Ogun State, on Friday.

Men of the National Emergency Management Agency, the Federal Fire Service and National Security and Civil Defence Corps had to scamper to safety when they encounter the hoodlums.

The armed men were believed to have vandalised the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s pipeline that ignited the inferno at Arepo.

The security men and rescue workers were at the scene to remove the corpses of the suspected vandals, who had been killed in the inferno earlier on Thursday.

NEMA officials and civil defence personnel, who had gone to the village to monitor the rescue operations, as well as journalists trying to access the village in canoes, were waylaid by hoodlums, who hid themselves in the bush.

NEMA Information Officer, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, told journalists that the agency and others were at the scene to recover dead bodies littering scene of the fire incident.

He said, “Our intention was to evacuate bodies and to help the fire fighters to extinguish the fire that has been burning since yesterday (Thursday).

“But as you can see, the vandals have refused to allow us to perform our work. We are even lucky to still be alive but we have contacted the military and they are on their way.

“We don’t want the bodies to decompose and begin to pollute the environment. The remains will spill into the surrounding stream and people drinking the water or using it for domestic purposes will definitely be at risk.”

Farinloye, however, gave the assurance that the rescue work would soon commence as the Director General of NEMA, Alhaji Muhammad Sidi, had requested the deployment of military personnel to flush out the hoodlums.


http://www.punchng.com/news/vandals-chase-nscdc-nema-officials-from-arepo/

Not surprising, 95% of Yorobbers are ritualists. Their Obas have to eat human flesh to ascend the throne.

Fhemmmy: Did Fashola told them to make arrest in such manner?

Like he -FASOLA- does not know how they -LASTMA people- do the arrest, right? Is there any evidence that he has ever punished a LASTMA official for enforcing the law so crudely?

2ru-talk:
Thank you very much. Imagine what state Police will turn out to be with gun wielding-powers.

Any state police in Nigeria is a recipe for authoritarianism.

olivertwist: Provided there's still a country called Nigeria then, how is this Mr. Eze so sure that the Hausa/Fulani man will hand over power to an Igbo man on a platter of gold and not a Yoruba or SS man. He's gat to learn politics 101 IMO.

Unless there is a military intervention, no region of Nigeria can monopolize power beyond their set time. It is a given that power must shift hands every 8 years, unless a new party wins an election.

LASTMA AGENT AT WORK

This OP knows that motor park thuggery, oftentimes deadly, is a common feature of daily life in the SW. However, for Lagos, I thought Fasola, a so-called lawyer, will do things the civil way. Why does he approve and condone this crude manner of enforcing the law. Yeah! he inherited it from Tinubu, the chief thug; but one understands Tinubu and thuggery, but not Fasola.

HiiiPower: You hold all the key positions
yet they haven't done anything to enhance SE.
I dey laugh!

FYI, NW is twice the population of SE
according to Nigerian census. So anyone contesting
against GEJ in 2015 just need to win NW, NE, part of NC and SW.
Both SS and SE are ants.

Igbo's stay losing out but trust them to blame
yoruba's when they fail in 2015.

And the same GEJ, using only SS and SE votes, won the election that your master Buhari from your almighty NW contested. You Yorubas, southern traitors, will cotinue to hold the short end of the stick for a long time to come.

If the account in this news is true, the Fulani man will walk free with a good lawyer because he was attacked first and had to defend himself. He was wrongfully accused of stealing a goat he had sold and the Yoruba man, even though he had no evidence that the seller stole the goat back, did the first attack. Anyways, Yorobbers and Fulanis are brothers in religion and/or mentality. They should settle outta court.

One_Naira: Chei see him putting me on blast. Okay Mazi FSU

I bring 5 kolanuts, 50 pound goatmeat and 7 kegs of palmwine to beg for your forgiveness

A di kwa m sorry

Nsogbu adighi, bro. One love.

Clerverly: Will you stop this idiotic and Imbecilic statement of yours? Sycophant!!
Though am not sure you are an Igbo Man. Let me not comment further.

Dude, be careful how you talk to people you have no clue who they are; okay? This is a public forum where you make your opinion and nothing but your opinion. It is my opinion that an Igbo president may not do the things I care most for Igboland namely an additional state to equalize the number of states, completing the Enugu Airport and the R. Niger bridge, because history has shown that presidents hardly do much for the people of their region for obvious reasons. What will an incompent Igbo president do for me other than the ethnic pride that comes with it? As long as Jonathan delivers these things or show strong evidence of doing so, I'd take him over an Igbo man like TA Orji, and people like that, for 2015. This is my opinion, take it or leave; and kindly learn some manners on how to disagree in a cordial manner. Thank you.

BTW, why would any fair and rational being not allow GEJ to do his second term like every other president has done?

As for your not being sure I am Igbo, you must be a johnny just come on this forum.

rhymz: o boy na u suppose swallow some chill pill, I no see wetin him talk wey make you dey answer like you are doing. . . . .take your own advice. Like you were expecting him to be that way to you or sth.

Ndewo

One_Naira: @ the highlighted words. We shall see

I have no bad history with FSU, at least I don't think I do. I just felt he's post to me had a hint of an attitude, if it didn't, I would stand corrected and I would gladly come back and apologize to him for accusing him wrongly. I have no wahalla whatsoever with him

You sure need to do the apology. I dey wait

One_Naira: Did you have to get an attitude? Jeez read a statement carefully and analyze what a person is saying before putting on an armor for battle. All that statement implied was it would be beneficial to Anambra if it diversified it's income and rely on both the commercial aspect and oil aspect. Something most oil producing states haven't fathomed yet. Most of the oil producing states tend to disregard the other aspect of their economy and rely soley on the income oil. God dude, una need to learn how to chillax.

O di kwa mma?[b][/b]

One_Naira: Exactly my thought. I hope they stick to the business aspect of their lifestyle too.

Duh! Anambra is about 4 million people. So not everyone can work in the oil companies that will follow this development. Besides, it is a private investment that will employe only the qualified at all cadres. It is not NNPC where anything goes. So the majority of Anambra people will still carry on with regular schedules

Hey OP, add Imo state to your list
3 SE states in, 2 to go. Soon all SE states will be oil-producing to the chagrin of the enemies.

afam4eva: Who's that bastard called Eze or whatever his miserable name is.

I'd take an Ijaw/Hausa/Yoruba president who gives the SE a River Niger bridge, an Enugu International Airport, and an additional state to make all regions equal, etc, over an Igbo president who will not likely deliver these things for fear of being labelled Igbo-centric

HNosegbe: Mr President, statements like the bolded are quite likely to be misinterpreted. With all the ethnic tension in the country, you are shooting yourself in the foot by saying this. The unspoken message is that people from other parts of the country (specifically northerners) are NOT your people. You are president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, not Southern Nigeria.

Yet another presidential gaffe, in my opinion.

He also called Boko Haram his people. Look at the big picture and stop boxing everything into a tiny cocoon.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahh!!!
These malu people sure have guts. Picking on southern Nigerians from right left and center.

Okay!!! I get it, Mufutau the yorrober attacked the malu man first and the malu man retaliated and killed the yorrober.