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[quote author=tpia@]why are there no other pictures of her?

this woman doesnt look yoruba in the stock photo.

not saying she isnt, but are there no other photos from a different angle.[/quote]You self-denying bs

You guys say GEJ is not working; Now that he has started working by giving us a MALU university, you are complaining. Human beings? Very insatiable

Some Igbo Olisas. Can we see facebook-compliant faces of Yoruba/Itshekiri Olisa

What is the big deal about Moshood Abiola Lagos University (MALU) aka UNILag (and any Nigerian university for that matter) that a mere name change is causing so much bad blood? Unilag has a poor, unenviable rating in Africa and no rating at all in the world.

Who is even bigger, UniLag or MKO?

cogitoErgo: North is being denied oil discorvery! lol

This is super hilarious. You will make an excellent comedian

Jeel: Why do yorubas hate themselves?

This question has no answer

I do not support states proliferation but anything to bring to par the number of states in each zone is welcome by me. Otherwise states should be abrogated and replaced by six regions.

7 states for each zone or no state for each zone. QED.

onal Assembly may create six additional states – Rep
May 29, 2012 by Agency Report 13 Comments

The National Assembly is to create six additional states to bring the geo-political zones at par, according to Mrs. Uche Ekwunife, who represents Anaocha/Njikoka/Dunukofia Federal Constituency of Anambra State.
Ekwunife told newsmen in Awka on Tuesday that the South-East, which currently has five states, would get two more while the other zones with six states will get one state each, thus leaving each zone with seven states.
Ekwunife said the members of the house in their just-concluded retreat in Port Harcourt viewed the 36-state structure and the 774 councils as not sufficient in touching the lives of the citizens with democracy dividends.
“The National Assembly is set to amend the 1999 Constitution again in an effort to further fine tune it to make the nation’s laws better, especially in areas of need to narrow down observed inconsistencies.
“It is obvious there are some areas that require further amendment that the nation’s constitution being the grund num of all laws should be devoid of any inconsistency, while areas that have become undesirable should be expunged,” she stressed.
The legislator listed some other areas deliberated by the members to include the percentage of women representation in national affairs and the environment, especially the indiscriminate hoisting of telecommunication base stations.
Other areas, according to her, are the problems of erosion, flooding, oil pollution and the separation of the office of the Minister of Justice from that of the Attorney-General of the Federation, among others.

http://www.punchng.com/news/national-assembly-may-create-six-additional-states-rep/

sweet hunibun: . true olisa of ijebu ode

Title and name aren't the same though. The guy is Igbo and has been congratulated by the Igbo community in the UK

double post

[quote author=tpia@]olisa is a yoruba chieftancy title, though the guy being discussed might be edo or delta.[/quote]Show an example of Olisa being a Yoruba title
Show an example of an Edo with the name Olisa

If anyone shows me any non Igbo with the name Olisa, then we are in business

Abiola’s son shocked by protest over UNILAG honor print
Published on May 29, 2012 by · 12 Comments

The family of the late Chief MKO Abiola, on Tuesday said that they were ecstatic over the renaming of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) as the Moshood Abiola University. And his son has expressed shock about the protest that the honor ignited.

President Goodluck Jonathan had in a broadcast to the nation to commemorate Democracy Day announced the renaming of the institution after Abiola.

Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 1993 presidential elections, was honoured for his contributions to democracy in Nigeria.

In a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Abdul Abiola, son of the late politician said there was nothing wrong with the naming of the university after his father.

“We are shocked by the reactions trailing this development. My late father believed so much in education.

“He donated money to universities across the nation. Naming a university after him was a well-deserved honour,” he said.

According to Abiola, the renaming is just one way of honouring and immortalising him.

“He should still be given more honors. We see nothing political in this.

“We are happy about it and we are yet to understand the rationale behind people going up in arms over this,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) has said Abiola deserved the highest honour in the land.

It said: “While acknowledging the place of Abiola in the political history of Nigeria, we would want the highest possible honour for him.

“We, however, deplore the renaming of the University of Lagos after him,’’the SNG said in a statement signed by its spokesman, Mr Yinka Odumakin, in Lagos on Tuesday.

“We restate our demand that Abiola must be given a befitting honour for the sacrifices he made for democracy in Nigeria in a decent and worthy manner,” it added.

A spontaneous reaction by students had greeted the announcement by President Jonathan of the renaming of the university.
The students took to the streets in the early hours of Tuesday, barricading major highways in the metropolis.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN, the students had massed at Oyingbo, Yaba, Sabo, Akoka and Fadeyi on the Ikorodu road, blocking the highways to protest against the name change from UNILAG to MAU.

Traffic was brought to a standstill, with a few vehicles plying the roads.

Commuters were forced to trek long distances, as the few commercial bus operators who ventured out, increased their fares.

Armed policemen stationed at Akoka, a few metres from the campus, kept their distance from the irate students.

The acting president of the students union, Mr Idowu Odumose, described the name change as an act of injustice.

“It is an injustice to the institution. The change cannot be done unilaterally without amending the act setting up the university,’’ he told NAN.

Mr Alli Sanni, the Chairman, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Lagos State Chapter, said the change was announced without consultation with the students and other stakeholders.

“It is shocking to wake up to find out that the school’s identity has been changed.

“The government should have renamed one of the new federal universities after Abiola,’’ he said.

Addressing the protesters, the institution’s Registrar, Mr Soluwe Bello, urged them to be calm and not to take the laws into their hands.

He said the students should be mindful of the fact that they were still mourning their late Vice Chancellor, Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe. (NAN)

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/05/29/abiolas-son-shocked-by-protest-over-unilag-honor/

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/newsextra/47969-governors-assess-growth-in-anambra.html

Governors assess growth in Anambra
By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, Nnewi 2 hours 8 minutes ago
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THE Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has hailed Anambra State Governor Peter Obi’s programmes, saying they have helped to raise the profile of the state and its people.

Director-General of the body, Mr. Asishana Okauru said Anambra residents should be proud of their governor.

Former governor of Cross River State Donald Duke said Obi has left memorable legacies in the state.

They spoke at the launch of the NGF’s States Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM) in the state.

At the event Governor Obi announced he would build an ultra-modern Governor’s Lodge and Government House in Awka, the state capital, before he leaves office in 2014.

Chairman of the NGF, and River State Governor Rotimi Amaechi said the SPRM subjects policies and programmes in each of the federation to expert analysis.

Amaechi was represented by the Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan.

“It is our hope that through participation in the peer review process, state governors will be able to learn from their peers about innovative and good practices that they could adapt and adopt in their respective states,” Uduaghan said.

The event was jointly sponsored by the Department for International Development, the NGF and Anambra State government.

Mr. Julius Court, of the DFID, said the programme was aimed at improving the lives of Nigerians by opening up opportunities for them.

Mr. John Litivack, of the World Bank, said the SPRM is meant to harness potentials through best practices and to strengthen the framework of governance.

The Chairman of the Millennium Development Goals implementation Committee in Anambra State, Prof. Chinyere Okunna, said the state was setting the pace in good governance and that Governor Obi is working hard to achieve the MDGs by 2015.

Obi said the peer review mechanism will help the state to improve on its programmes.

Various stakeholders including traditional rulers and town union leaders met for one week to examine the Anambra State Technical Review Mission on the peer review mechanism.



Country Leader of the DFID, Mr Mark Walker said Anambra is now an investors’ destination.

He said the DFID came to Anambra because of the commitment and doggedness of its governor.

Duke who is a member of the National Steering Committee of the SPRM said Obi has left enduring legacies.

“It doesn’t make sense that after eight years of being a governor, the occupant of that office will not walk freely with his people,” he said. “Obi will walk freely with his heads high among his people because he has left legacies everywhere.”

The former governor said Obi has done well even though the state’s cash allocation is much less what some other under-achieving states have.

Okauru said Anambra people should be proud of Peter Obi because of his dedication, commitment to the growth of the state.

The state Commissioner for Economic Planning, and chairman of the state peer review mechanism steering committee, Prof Chinyere Okunna said Obi is striving to take the state to an enviable height.

Presenting the state self-assessment report to former Governor Donald Duke , Governor Obi said people who champion change are never loved by their people, insisting that education remains the best tool to fight poverty in the society, followed by roads and infrastructure.

Obi announced that a brewing firm which his administration attracted to the state has sent 36 Anambra youths to Kenya to learn brewing after which they wil return to teach others.

England is an over-glorified crap of a country
They have been there for more than 1000 years
America is barely 250 years old
I'd stay in my village in Nigeria than live in England

What a verdict

[quote author=Sam_Ikenna]This post reeks of hypocrisy.
Show me any nation that doesnt have some of its deranged youths beating and chasing immigrants? Why is Isreal's case different to the point where Hitler is assumed right? My gosh! Didnt we chase Ghanaians out? Didnt Ghana chase us out too? Didnt SA chase Nigerians and other Africans out? Did you call Peter Boter a saint when SA did it to her African brothers? Its easy to an anti-semite you know.

You even had drag your "Igbo brothers" into it. What you need to do is to change first before accusing others.[/quote]The part in bold is almost correct except in Nigeria. Our youths do not have time for foreigners. I agree the govt does.

Of course, there are fringe lunatics in all nations. I am only shocked that the so-called chosen ones can be no different from others.
This reminds me of the issue of nuclear capability and Iran: Israel is a nuclear nation but baulks heavily at the idea of a nuclear neighbor. What do they want?

[quote author=hotshot_peter]Oh so you think hitler was right? Do you know how much he hated blacks? By now you and I would have been in chains calling one small German boy 'master'.

I'm dumb-founded by this wickedness displayed by the Jews. But as always, my solution is the same thing "COME BACK AND DEVELOP YOUR COUNTRY"[/quote]Every other race hates blacks, but the Jews have a history with hatred (from their neighbors since biblical times, and then from Germans), on the basis of which they should be different from other haters.

But again, what do I know?

And to my Igbos brothers who bask in the euphoria of ''Igbos are jews'', try living in Israel and see how they accept you.
Obu so so Igbo bu Jew? Igbo be Japan kwa. SMH

The Jews have forgotten their own history so soon.
They are the supposedly the chosen ones of God
Is this what God would want them to do? Hate on their fellow humans?

Outburst against African migrants in Israel

Israeli anti-immigration riots hit African Neighbourhoods...Sudanese, Nigerians Attacked
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Tel Aviv has been hit by the most violent protests in its recent history after more than 1,000 Israelis took to the streets in the city's south to demand the deportation of African immigrants and asylum seekers.
The predominately black neighbourhood of Hatikva was ransacked by groups of nationalist protesters who had attended a demonstration on Wednesday night against illegal African migrants.
The protesters claim the Africans are responsible for a rise in crime, bearing signs saying "This is not Africa" and "Stop talking, start expelling".
"Blacks out!" shouted demonstrators in the crowd, while others yelled "Send the Sudanese back to Sudan", as other protesters derided the "bleeding-heart leftists" working to help them.
The mob set cans of rubbish on fire, smashed the windows of shops owned by Eritrean migrants and beat up Africans walking through the streets.
TJ, a 29-year-old migrant from Nigeria, watched the violent chaos from his rooftop having been chased and pelted with rocks when he attempted to leave his house.
"There were protesters everywhere smashing shop and car windows," he said. "A group of about 10 or 15 boys stopped one black kid cycling on his bike. They pulled him off and were punching and kicking him in his head. The police just stood and watched until it got really out of control."
Other witnesses described a gang assaulting a mother carrying a young baby so violently that she was forced to drop her child. Others stopped shuttle buses to search for migrant workers among their passengers.
The Israeli police confirmed they had arrested 17 suspects involved in "a protest against illegal African immigrants". Extra police units were positioned to prevent further violence in the area last night.
Peace Now, an Israeli human rights organisation, is calling for an investigation into whether the speakers at Wednesday night's rally, including Knesset ministers Miri Regev, Danny Danon, Yari Levin and Michael Ben-Ari, are guilty of incitement.
During her address, Ms Regev described illegal immigrants as a "cancer in our society".
Danny Danon, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, wrote in a Facebook status later the same evening: "Israel is at war. An enemy state of infiltrators was established in Israel, and its capital is south Tel Aviv."
According to Israeli government figures, there are currently 60,000 African asylum seekers in Israel. The vast majority come from Eritrea and Sudan and were smuggled into the country by foot through Israel's southern border with Egypt, many having been beaten and tortured by their smugglers in camps in the Sinai en route.
Israel terms any illegal immigrant through this border an 'infiltrator' and estimate 90 per cent are economic migrants coming to Israel to look for work – a stark contrast to the figures in England and Canada, where 66 per cent and 96 per cent of Eritreans who arrive illegally are granted refugee status.
The Israeli government currently does not deport Eritreans or Sudanese however Yehuda Weinstein, Israel's attorney general, will appear before the Jerusalem District Court next week to argue that there is no longer a legal obstacle to expelling 700 Southern Sudanese refugees. If approved, Israel will be the first country to have reached this decision.

Defending her position on Thursday, Ms Regev insisted that while she does not condone violence, African immigrants pose a grave demographic threat to Israel. "Israel should adopt the US protocol of returning infiltrators to the border within 72 hours ... Jews and Israelis are scared of living in their country," she said.
Mr Danon's proposition to prevent further violence was to deport the city's African residents " to detention facilities and remove Africans from population centres".
Bracing themselves for a second round of nationalist protests on Thursday evening, the residents of Hatikva are struggling to resume normal life.
'TJ' says he is among the few who has left his home following the violence: "Black people have been too afraid to leave their homes to go to work today. Racism in Tel Aviv is not only getting worse it's getting out of hand and the police are no help. We are terrified."
Daily Telegraph of London

Source:www.pointblanknews.com
25/05/2012

He did this in 2009:

Teacher who French-kissed 14-year-old schoolgirl spared jail because of his heart condition

By Daily Mail Reporter
UPDATED: 05:30 EST, 29 August 2009

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209695/Teacher-French-kissed-pupil-14-escapes-jail-teach-again.html#ixzz0PXGtsdRf

And he did this now:


Nigerian Teacher Arraigned For Raping School Girl In UK

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/70635-nigerian-teacher-arraigned-raping-school-girl-uk.html

How do you even gauge who is a bright student in Nigeria when most people do exam malpractice to pass? For such scholarship, they should employ independent examiners to test the selected students.

Most likely this will go the way of federal character: each zone will bring 16 students = 96, then some tops shots in the fed govt will complete the four with their kids.

No Oil Discovery in Kwara, Says DPR

24 May 2012

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Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed

By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku

Nine months after Kwara State gleefully announced that it had found oil in its domain, a result of field screening and sampling tests for identifying the presence of hydrocarbons has revealed that there is no oil discovery in the state.

The State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, had in August last year announced that crude oil had been discovered in Aran Orin town in Irepodun Local Government Area of the state by a farmer.

He said geologists from the state Ministry of Industry and Solid Minerals and the independent analysis of a private oil company had confirmed that the substance was crude and even identified the blend as Bonny Light, a high-grade of Nigerian crude oil preferred by European and American refineries due to its unique properties.

But a top official of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) told THISDAY yesterday that a detailed soil and sampling analysis by geologists and hydrocarbon experts has showed that the substance is not crude.

The source said the result of the analysis confirmed the agency’s initial suspicion that what the Kwara State Government identified as oil was not it.

He said, following the announcement in August, the DPR office in Kwara visited the site and collected a sample of the substance for test.

“What we did was to send our operations team at the Kwara office to take the sample for analysis. Geologists and hydrocarbon experts were drafted by the DPR management at the Head office to do a thorough screening of the substance. In the end, it was discovered that the substance is not oil”, he said.

The source explained that details of the analysis had been sent to the Kwara State government, adding that if they are not satisfied, the DPR will make a detailed presentation to them on how the analysis was carried out.

He affirmed that: “There is no hydrocarbon discovered in Aran Orin, as claimed by Kwara State Government. There is nothing like oil there. It is possible some mechanics had used that site in the past and when they saw something that looks like oil, they started shouting we have found oil. We have done a very good job, but if they are not satisfied, we will make a presentation to them to buttress that fact”.

Also, a source at the DPR’s Kwara office, who craved anonymity confirmed that there is no hydrocarbon deposit in the state.

‘The DPR constituted a management team from the Kwara office. We went to the site, took the sample and carried out some analysis on it. Our head office also constituted another management team to further analyse the sample. This was done and the result sent to the head office. The Director had directed that the team should make presentation and the same result deliberated upon before it is released to the Kwara State government and then the public. Kwara has been very eager to know the outcome’’ said the source privy to the findings.

But the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had picked holes in the pronouncement, insisting that it was wrong for the Kwara Government to have done so when the DPR that should verify such a claim was yet to be contacted.

The corporation argued that it was not the duty of government officials or individuals to make pronouncements on oil discovery when no sample had been analysed.

“Even if oil was actually discovered there it is not their duty to go public with such information. It is the DPR that should be contacted and then experts will be sent there to analyse the soil sample”, said NNPC.

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http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/no-oil-discovery-in-kwara-says-dpr/116480/